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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. We're rolling into the summer. Historic pitching performances. We hate that because we're hitters. We're going to talk a lot of ball. Buckle up. Logan Webb.
Falling down to a knee. Adrian Beltre. I'm in Texas.
He's in Texas.
Hello and welcome to Talkin' Baseball, presented by Fanatics Markets, where fans trade on sports. Fanatics Markets available now on the App Store. I am Jake Storielli. That is Trevor Plouffe on his birthday for the people. Middle, middle, June 15th. It doesn't get any better. Bobby Golfs is here. Dalt's assembling all of it for us. Coach Trev, down in the Dirty D, where are you?
Yeah, man. I'm back where my heart belongs in Texas. I was actually a resident here for a little bit. Grandparents lived here. Jake, you and I, just for the people, we love our people so much. This beautiful baseball community, and I really mean that sincerely. You're fresh off a flight from Toronto. Straight here. I got to my hotel room at 4.30 in the morning last night.
On my 40th, here we are talking ball for the peeps.
Yeah, it was one of those moments where I was kind of like, man, it would be really cool if we had that, like, Kirk Herbstreet, Stephen A. Smith treatment when it's like, oh, look what Kirk Herbstreet's doing. He's doing the pregame show in Oregon, and he's flying private to the game, and he shows up and calls the game, and it's like, okay, he's got his dog with him. Like, I'm here.
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Chapter 2: How did the Yankees perform against the Blue Jays?
The Astros, 33-40. And the Angels, Sueli Deportes, 29-43. And then in the Central, you mentioned the White Sox. Are they... The most aged-up team in baseball? Yes. No, that's the Giants, but they're close. 38-32 for them, tied at the top of the division with Cleveland, who's 39-33. And then you mentioned my twins. They're six and a half games back, Jake, okay?
Okay.
Seven games under .500. The hitting's been good. The pitching, not so much. 33-40 for them. The Tigers, it's starting to get into what-is-you-doing baby time. Yeah. Yeah. We'll talk. 29-42 for them. A half game in front of the Royals, who are 29-43. And then your Yanks. Jakey boy. Yeah. One game lead on the Tampa Bay Rays. 43-27 for you guys. 41-27 for them. And then Toronto, 34-38.
Boston, 34-39. Or excuse me, Baltimore, 34-39. The sticks are coming out for them. And then Boston is the 29-40 team, if the wild card was a start today, Jakey. Tampa Bay, the A's in Texas would all be in the playoffs. Toronto City, one and a half games back. Baltimore and my twins, two and three games, respectively. Those are the standings in the American League.
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And I guess before we get into it, because now it's just digging at my brain, Bobo, what do you got for Coach Trev? You know, we've... I think the talking baseball people have seen when Robbie golf starts cooking, it means he's normally got something dialed up.
What do you got? I just had some fun this morning, and I wanted to show my appreciation to my good pal Trevor Plouffe. Okay.
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Chapter 3: What historical pitching performance is highlighted?
And yeah, hey, if you did this series... You put it in the simulator machine a couple times, these eighth and ninth innings go a little different, and I don't know what happens with the Yankees, but I know what happened this weekend, that they win a nice series. It's fun, man. They've got like chippy, okay, we got runners on base. Are we going to steal? Is the bunk coming out?
Which, again, sounds good when you're winning, sounds horrible when you're losing.
Yeah, I mean, it is a different look team for the Yankees for sure. And then, you know, what Paul Goldschmidt has meant so far this season can't go understated. Nobody takes Lee Varlin up top like that, and he did.
Literally nobody has. First homer of the year.
Oh, man. Good for you guys. That's a fun brand of baseball to watch. I wanted to touch on the Caballero stuff. People need to stop getting on him. You're out on it?
No, I'm in on it. Everyone else should be out on it. If you don't know, Jose Caballero, he is messing with the pitchers and the pitch clock that you have to be a batter in the batter's box and you have to make eye contact with the pitcher at the eight-second mark of the clock ticking down, which is the batter's defense to the pitchers being able to stand on the mound and hold the ball forever.
He just, he picks and chooses, and dude, the umpires take the bait every time, and it's so delicious. He held the stadium hostage for three minutes.
But the point of what he's doing is, I know it doesn't happen all the time, but if you are a hitter and you feel like you are getting, again, you lock eyes at 12, 13 seconds, and then the pitcher holds the ball until two. Standing there for 10 seconds is a long time. It seems like an eternity in the box. I wouldn't want that.
So I think if I was playing in the pitch clock era, there's no doubt I would be doing some semblance of this if I felt like I wasn't getting my fair share in the box.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of injuries for the Guardians?
Yeah, he... 9.65 OPS on the season right now. It was interesting, you know, talking to St. Louis people before the season and being like, can he play first? Or like, what's the deal? And they're like, yeah, he can play first.
And you look at his offensive stats every year, I mean, as consistent as it gets, and you remember so many of those years he's playing catcher, that yeah, if he gets, you know, if he gets 160, 150 games at Fenway, he's easily going to have his best offensive season and he's on path for that right now.
Him and Sonny Gray from the Cardinals. I keep forgetting that they got Sonny this offseason as well. Yeah. Sonny's been great too.
That was the whole thing. They didn't have to pay a ton of prospect capital to get those guys. They just kind of had to pay the bill. But, yeah, it's been home with the Boston Red Sox, which we had those weird IKF quotes a couple episodes ago. And then it's just the offensive output that when they get – The Red Sox being 29th in runs scored, 29th in homers.
I mean, that's just at Fenway Park, Trev. That can't happen. Can't happen.
I'm excited to watch the Rangers tonight. I'm going to have a full report on them by the end of the series. I can't wait. I'm excited. So, yeah. Good job.
Good job, Red Sox. Houston KC, two of the more kind of disappointing teams this year that I don't get too jazzy on this one. I would just say I think I had my final, like, deep stomach sink when I watched game two. The Royals about to turn a double play to head into the bottom of the ninth tied. And Lofton just, he throws it away, and you're just like, what? Like, that's... When times are bad...
That's what happens. That the Royals go on to lose that game and lose the series, and you're just like, that's a pretty normal double play ball. That's Christian Walker running. Like, what are we doing? And the Royals have had a lot of that vibe this year, and Vinny P has a hammate that he's going to be out for those five to seven weeks or whatever it is. My Royals hope may be officially gone.
It's hard to do it in the AL right now, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Both these teams are having struggles in their own respective regards. I mean, the first game alone, insane pitching lines from the starters. Both exit before the first inning even is done. Amai, I can't tell. Again, I've watched him pitch sometimes. This guy's got great stuff. Other times, he looks like this.
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Chapter 5: What standout performances are highlighted in this segment?
I love this part of the year. Everyone's got hope. Those are the standings in the National League.
Thank you, Trevor. Happy birthday again. Let's start off with... Again, we do standout performances. We do awards. And it gets tricky because we're like, well, we're going to talk so much baseball. It's not like... Can't skip what Mizorowski did. So maybe this is like a... Maybe we start doing a pre-standout because...
Chapter 6: How is Jacob Mizorowski's historical performance analyzed?
Travis, literally, it's one of those starts that has an argument for one of the best starts ever. A one-hit shutout, zero walks, 15 strikeouts. He's throwing 104 out here, pal. Uh... And it, again, I, right before he started this crazy streak, I watched him, he pitched against the Yankees. I think they, I think they got one off of him and we were doing talking Yanks.
And this is me doing a little too much pat on the back. And I think Jim was like, yeah, you know, you gotta be a little more scrappier against. I was like, dude, I don't, I don't know what you can do against this guy. Cause if he's going to put it over the dish at one Oh three,
Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Brewers' potential trades?
And then he's going to bang that slider when he wants to. You're weaponless as a hitter. These are the Phillies, Trev. I know their offensive output hasn't been elite this year, but a lot of those guys are pretty elite all-time baseball players. This guy's on something else right now.
No, I mean, I don't know what you do with it, to be honest with you, because the fastball comes out of his hand and then kind of darts all over the zone. I feel like sometimes he gets his fingers around the ball and he'll cut it a little bit. Sometimes he's got them on the inside part of the ball and the thing just runs up above the zone.
I don't know if he's commanding all that or if he's just chucking it. But you watch these pitches.
Chapter 8: How do injuries impact team strategies as the season progresses?
Yeah, some of these pitches of Schwarber are just diabolical. Like right there, what are you supposed to do with that pitch? You're trying to time it up. It comes out of the hand. One's going this way. The other one, I don't know, man. But he is on a historical run. Last eight starts, a .17. That's the lowest in any eight-start span since earned runs became official in 1913. So he's special, man.
It's... It's a lot of fun to watch. And I don't know. He keeps throwing harder, Jake. Yeah. Like, when does that stop? I don't know. And Pat Murphy's calling him Forrest Gump, and he's playing in Forrest Gump-like. Yeah, Forrest Gump-like.
It's pretty special. It is. It's shocking. I don't know. I don't know. And it sucks that we do live... And Brewers fans, close your ears right now. We live in this weird era of pitching that we're like, okay, you're going to keep throwing harder? And what do you do with these innings? These dumb...
It should just be pure Jacob Mizorowski appreciating one of the most gifted pitchers we've... The most gifted starting pitcher I think we've ever seen on a mound. We literally haven't seen this velo from a starting pitcher. Like, he set the record in this start, 104.5. That, yeah, I don't know. Just going to appreciate it. And, like, yeah, there's...
If you want to chop up these final eight starts anyways, it's like Chris Sale kind of did this once when he broke out in 2018. Otherwise, nobody has. One year after his MLB debut. So maybe he's just figured out the league a little bit, Trev.
I had this theory because the next day the Phillies come and just like crush the ball. And I had this theory in my head. Oh, like I got to go look up like after Mizorowski starts. How does the pitcher do the next day? Because he probably looks like it looks like meatballs, right? It's not the case. So yeah, it's the first bit of research I did. I was like, no, never mind.
Turns out because Kyle Harrison's backed him up a few times and just been nasty too. And yeah.
It was a tough break for Shane Drone that day as the Phillies put up some big numbers. But the Brewers almost scrapped back and win that game. Okay, Chris Rose is going to show up for your birthday. Are the Brewers better than last year's Brewers?
Yeah. I think so. Deeper starting pitching. Yeah. I think the offense is probably the same, which that's always going to be the concern with the Brewers, even though they have guys that can do it. But I think that's just in everybody's head because of what's happened in the past. But I think they are a better pitching team this year than last year.
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