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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. The American League, kind of a mess. Judge out for a while.
Chapter 2: What are the current challenges facing the American League?
The National League fills our big back. What's going on in the standing? Let's talk ball. Let's talk ball. Gialito.
Mike Napoli.
It's a deep fly ball. It's a deep fly ball. Hello and welcome to Talkin' Baseball presented by Fanatics Markets where fans trade on sports. Fanatics Markets available now on the app stores. I'm Jake Storielli. That is Trevor Plouffe. Bobby Golfs, Rob Sirocco producing with Dalton Feely getting a lot of info for us on a juicy June 5th. Some breaking news last night.
The big fella Aaron Judge is going to be out. for a month to two to more. We'll see what goes on there. There's a little bit of AL East dysfunction and function. Orioles kind of hot. And then in the National League, Phillies Padres kind of head in different directions.
That Otani guy casually having the best season ever, and it feels like, have we talked about, we never know if we're talking about him enough. Let's talk about all of it. Coach Trev, how are you?
you know how i'm really doing yeah i told you before the episode uh oriole's a 9 of 13 they've won okay the back mike napoli just an absolute savage can you imagine him on some of those world series heaters that he was on just shirtless and bars like what was going on did i ever mention that my buddy had a voicemail of a certain yankee initials dj from a girl in boston that he knew
I feel like you've kind of mentioned something.
And DJ blew her off, basically. Whoops. I don't know. A lot of stuff going on today in my head. I'm kind of all over the place. I'm repping. You're jumbled. My guy McCutcheon. I think he's going to be retired now. Oh.
Mike Napoli career homers. Ooh. I want to say he got to the twos.
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Chapter 3: How is Aaron Judge's injury impacting the Yankees?
We love the game and we have fun with it. I don't know. There might be people out there that would expect us to know all the coaching staffs. And that's not my lane. Who was it? A's third base coach, Bobby Crosby, I believe. That was a head turner for me the other day. I was like, okay, Bobby Crosby.
I think he's been in the organization doing something for a while now. I feel like maybe he has been on the staff for a while, but could be wrong. Most of my friends and brethren of my baseball years are now coaches. There are still some that are playing, but most are coaches. Always check that out. But yeah, Napoli, what? He's with the Reds.
Yeah, Tito guy. That's kind of cool, going from player to like.
Brady Sizemore is the Twins' first base coach.
Chapter 4: What makes Shohei Ohtani a unique player in baseball?
Hot.
Look at those stats. He's like legit hot. He's legit hot.
I walked up next to him, and ain't nobody looking at me. Really? I don't know.
I disagree with that. I disagree with that. Like I said, we're going to cover everything. I mean, those are the main topics. We'll see if we get to anything else. It might be a little slightly different episode. I feel like the American League might be a little more topical because, you know, I was shocked. Shout out to our social team.
Kyle, like Judge slash Otani not winning MVP in the AL this year is kind of a conversation. It might just be a Bobby Witt conversation. And the American League was already wide open, and now it feels a little more wide open. So AL might be a little different. NL's got a little bit of sauce to it between the Braves continuing their dominance, the Phillies and Padres, ships passing the night.
Why don't we just do the damn thing? Because it's Friday. And it's now the fourth time I've mentioned it. Shelfie's Phillies. Congrats on baby number three to Shelfie. And the Phillies get three wins. They sweep the Padres. Brando. Not so much, man. Bryce Harper with the big homer in that first game. Christopher Sanchez's scoreless streak ends in the seventh inning after 50.2 of them.
What a freak show. And then they get her done. as Zach Wheeler goes no-hit into the six. That Phillies formula, stars on offense, dominant pitching, it came through in this series. Padres asking questions, whether it's Fernando's power, whether it's Machado's batting average. They've got some issues. The Diamondbacks and the Dodgers, the top two teams out west now, split a four-game set.
The D-backs took the bread games. Game one and game four, E-Rod having an impressive season so far. That ERA is at 2-2-4. And then... That final game, they get it done. Because in the middle game, the problem was Shohei Otani pitched. He has a 0-7-4 ERA. Also got three hits. And the Dodgers jumped out big in that second game to split four against their division rivals.
The Braves take two out of three from Toronto. Matt Olsen. We had Lou Gehrig's day this week. And by the way, Matt Olsen, the ninth longest consecutive game streak all time. while raking his homers the difference in game one. Mauricio Duval goes big fly in that second game to help them get the win. Blue Jays looking down Chris Sale in a sweep. They knock him around a little bit.
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Chapter 5: How are the Phillies managing their recent success?
I believe so.
OPS plus right now is negative 0.7 B-War 65 OPS plus. Not what you want. So they're winning, and they're winning with starting pitching and the bullpen. Duran with a freaking incredible save here, striking out three guys on 14 pitches in this series. So I said this about the Padres early in the season. It's like, you expect the offense to wake up a little bit.
The Padres are winning games because of their bullpen early on. They're getting some timely hitting, but overall the offense has been brutal, especially the guys that you're supposed to count on. And I was like, oh, they're going to come to life. Well, they really haven't. And maybe the same thing is here with the Phillies, which makes me think, What do you think old big B.D.
Dombrowski is going to do at the deadline? He's going to do something stupid. He's going to do something stupid. You know it. Don't say stupid. He's going to do something fun. Fun. Fine. That's a better word. Fun. In two or three years, you might be like, oh, that was stupid.
The hottest name in the street trades these days is there's an odd amount of teams looking for a right-handed power hitter, which it's like, what happened to the game I love? It doesn't exist. Like, call Trevor Ploof if you want that. You know what the hottest name is? Isak Paredes.
Oh, yeah. Christian Walker, Isak Prez, and Casey Schmidt. Those are the only guys.
Yeah.
Royce Lewis.
You know, it's kind of funny. I know my Yankees are talking Isak. The Red Sox are talking Isak, which everyone's like, what the hell are you guys doing?
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Chapter 6: How are the Diamondbacks performing this season?
Let's save that for the Yale. But, yeah, no, I mean, the Phillies, it's what makes them. We know if they need to press the button. They were so close to getting Bichette. Hey, maybe call up the Mets. Why don't you send Bo over? We'll clean this whole thing up. I don't know if that's going to happen. But you're absolutely right, Trev.
And I just think, I think the highlight that everyone should know, I think everyone, if you're a baseball person, you know that Christopher Sanchez is the lead for the NL Cy Young 50, the longest ever lefty scoreless streak. Like, that's insane. Dude, I didn't even realize that Wheeler was like this. Eight starts, a 2-3-1 ERA. He's no hitting the puck. Like,
With thoracic outlet syndrome, which was another popular topic on my internet yesterday, it's the worst pitcher injury that we still, we play more scared than that, than Tommy John. Tommy John, you know, there's a longer timeline necessarily connected to it. But thoracic outlet, and I think they did something different with Wheeler. It was one of the newer surgeries, I believe.
But he looks like Zach Wheeler. So now if you want to play the Phillies, Wheeler and Sanchez, you almost have no shot. And that's like, Lizardo, Nola's thrown a new curveball this start, which, okay. If you're getting that kind of starting pitching effort every day, which kind of leads to the Padres problems too, that yes, the hitting's been horrific. Dude, you look at that rotation right now.
If we didn't respect the Padres as a franchise a little more, I think we'd be talking about that rotation very differently.
Agreed. Agreed. I thought I had something else to say. Oh, Sanchez. Just incredible. I turned the game on just as he gave the hit to Merrill, which is crazy. Like literally the pitch. Yeah, tough for me. But I got to say something. I just gave Brandon Marsh credit. For what he's doing at the plate. We got to make a better throw here, Pop. I think we can hose this guy out at the plate.
Are we going to show it here? Let's see. We're potentially building up ball in the hole. Brandon Marsh. Ty France running two or three hopper. Trev, you know that's one of my... It's one of my biggest bugaboos, and I just don't know if it's blind or I just think it's we don't practice that stuff more. But 90s, 2000s baseball, like a throw home used to be a throw home.
They never practice throws home. No, I think guys... This is the crazy thing, man, is infielders are out there every single day doing the side work. Then they go take these ground balls, and now...
today's day and age i mean they are smoking ground balls these guys before the game something that if i was playing about hey guys chill out yeah like i'm just trying to get my hands warm here and now they are doing like they are freaking rocketing balls at these infields every single day and they're throwing and outfielders you know what they do they get a tennis racket and a tennis ball and they just go and they run their little routes
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Cubs' recent performance?
This just is not going to work. Um, let's, let's chew through the rest of the national league. Uh, Where I think, Trev, we can kind of hit these series a little high and tight because we have our four-game split rule, which that's where the Dodgers and D-backs are going. A little spoiler for you, I'm actually going to talk some Shohei Otani later in the show.
Okay, I got three things on this series. First of all, keep talking about Erod and what he's doing out there. My goodness.
I'm talking about him later.
Oh, you are? Okay, great. Great news for you. That takes away one of the things. You're also talking about Otani. That takes away my second thing. Third thing was, hell of a comeback in the last game for the D-backs. This team's so fun, dude. I feel like they are like the cardiac kids. I don't know. It's been over like three or four seasons now. We're just seeing them.
They fight, and they'll give up crazy innings, but then they'll answer back. We always say that. But here, you see Corbin Carroll with the knock. Then you got Perdomo with the knock. And then freaking Cattell Marte. About as cool as it gets on the walk-off homer. That's your guy.
Yeah. His second of the year. Come on. Show that swing. He didn't have a walk-off homer coming into the season. See ya. 97 down and in. Don't put it there, Tanner Scott. I'll visit the second deck quick. Yeah, hey, you mentioned, you know, you're looking at that Phillies lineup and you're like, where's the contribution coming from? Corbin Carroll being just such a bona fide star.
Cattell Marte turning around after a slow start. Ildemarro, who had an amazing April. Him and Max Muncy. If you're missing football season, go check out what they did last night. The Diamondbacks are good, and they might be our, like, as far as good teams go, the team we've talked about the least.
I think they just get overshadowed so much in that division. And the Padres always blind me, at least. But, yeah, I mean, they're great. They, on the other hand, not like the Phillies, have seven people, seven regulars with a OPS plus over 100.
And we always talk about young guys coming on the scene like Waldschmidt and Tommy Troy and now two top 100 prospects in the outfield on a given day for them. So, yeah, the recipes change there. Erod, who I will be talking about in a little bit. You know, did you have where did you have him coming in the season? And like they have a bullpen recipe back there, which how often do we talk about?
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Chapter 8: What strategies are teams using to improve their standings?
Hey, because he's, you know, just on track for the best season ever coming up. Um, as he doesn't allow an earned run again, Frederick, uh, let's go to Atlanta. Uh, The Braves hosted the Blue Jays. 17-2-1 in series this year, Coach Trev. Continuing to have the best record in baseball. More Matt Olsen appreciation because we do stumble into it every now and then. But when I saw his...
The ninth longest streak all time. 844 consecutive games on Lou Gehrig's day with an OPS in the nines, with a game-winning homer in that game. And then it's a little more, you know, you're not expecting Dubon to provide the widow maker in game two, but he does it. Snaps for the Blue Jays for surviving sale. They're getting some runners on the bases. I don't know. What else did you see?
Two quality starts by Atlanta pitchers in the first two games. They get the victories because, yeah, they have some dogs in that freaking lineup. I still remember when I told Matt Elson, he's probably got more pop, and let me fix you. And he's like, I'm just going to hit 500 homers in my career. Shut up.
Please don't talk to me, Mr. Ploof.
We had a great dinner one time. Last game, I was actually watching this last night. It was 3-2. Jays were up, and I was like, oh, Varlin's warming up. Big part of the order for the Braves is coming. I'm like, I can't wait to watch this. This is sick. And then Ronaldo Lopez gave up a bunch of runs, and Varlin still came in because I think he was already hot, so whatever.
And it kind of ruined my viewing experience, so I texted Peter that after the game. I was watching the postgame with him and, is it Nick Green?
Ooh, I'd have to double-check. I don't know.
I think it is. I think it is. So, I mean, look, Braves are awesome. Toronto kind of getting back in the swing of things.
Yeah.
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