Chapter 1: What chaos happened with the Mets and Dodgers this week?
Hello and welcome to Talkin' Baseball. We have three teams on a heater. Three W6s, one team with an L8. We'll find out who those teams are and we'll talk about your team too.
Let's talk ball. I get to do the intro.
No. At all. Landon Root.
Mmm. Shit. You are not out, girls. It's over. Come on, man.
Easy.
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Chapter 2: How did the Blue Jays perform against the Brewers?
Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball, presented by Fanatics Markets, where fans trade on sports. Fanatics Markets available now on the App Store. I am Jake Storielli. That... is Jack Oliver, a.k.a. Operates Online with the moniker Jolly Olive. Rob is here.
Chapter 3: What notable performances occurred in the Cubs vs. Phillies series?
Dahl and Trev missing, if you see them, return to sender. Trev actually had a pretty cool opportunity. I'll decide if he gets to decide that on Monday. For now, we're yucking ball today with I think what people are calling the ball-knower crew at John Boy Media.
Jolly Olive, how are you? I'm good. There's a lot of good baseball going around.
Chapter 4: What are the highlights from the Giants and Reds matchup?
Some not so good baseball going around. It's been a while since I've done one of these recap eps with you. It's nice doing it with you, Jake. There's no pressure, you know, with like the whole... I carry. You carry a lot. I have the standings pulled up already. It's good. In case you were wondering if I had that going, I do. You're already a step ahead of...
He who shall not be named.
And you know what? I like doing this show because it's a nice refresher for me for anything that I might miss. Because, you know, there's 30 baseball teams and they all play like every day. I'm excited.
There's a lot. And if you're new to the show, hey, what's up? Subscribe. Yeah, for these recap episodes, especially as we get deeper into the season... To talk about every team, quick math, if we talked about every team for two minutes, I guess that would be an hour. That feels pretty attainable. Really good math by you.
But some topics we want to talk about for like five minutes because they're good topics. So your team might not get the full cheese this episode, especially four-game splits. My Yankees, hand up. Snaps to the halos. They mash.
I've been watching them like every night. That's weird. They're always doing something entertaining. It's true. Every game they play, something happens.
Ever since the fight, the Angels have been electricians. Jolly, the good news for you is... There's none. It's Friday. Oh. Which means we start out with your National League. Great. Great. Let's just rip off the band-aid. In the National League. Look at that. Your New York Mets. Oh, nice. They ran into the wrong team at the wrong time. Slash, this is the wrong team for everyone.
The Los Angeles Dodgers sweep the New York Mets. It started off with Justin Robleski. Eight innings, zero earned runs, two strikeouts. We'll let Jolly talk about that. McClain versus Yamamoto was fun. Really good, man. Until the end of the game for Mets fans. Kyle Tucker, he's on their team now. And then they get the sweep done on Otani Day. Hyesung Kim, shout out Trev.
And Dalton Rushing, the backup catcher, who's maybe your NL starter at catcher. Right now, we will talk about that series. Another series we'll yuck a little bit about because this was last year's two most fun teams, IMO, linked up. Milwaukee hosted the Toronto Blue Jays and game one lived up to the billing. Extra innings, both teams closers blowing the game. We got small ball, we got big ball.
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Chapter 5: What are the recent struggles of the Kansas City Royals?
They swept the A's, which we still don't know exactly what to do with the A's. They swept the Mets. Good team. Okay. I mean, since then, if you take those wins off the board, you're 4-11? Yeah. And they have the injury bug, too. So, again, I'm not... Toronto doesn't like when – I am wearing a Yankees hat right now, so don't get me wrong. I get it.
But, yeah, I think they have some concern, and there's injuries, and last year had a little magic. Let's see what that turns into.
Two and seven versus the Rockies, White Sox, and Twins. Might look back on that at season's end and wonder. Every game matters. Every game matters.
Chapter 6: How is the performance of the Minnesota Twins affecting their season?
Bogey, 200th career home run. Nice. Nice. That's good. Brian Wu in pickoff plays across this great game. Be careful.
You have to throw to first. Right down.
Yeah. Check it out. John Bino. A fan base that's probably glad we didn't mention them in that last segment, the Kansas City Royals, who, again, they just... Everything feels a step away. They lose game one with a wild pitch and some hustle from the Motor City Kitties. That final game, they get the comeback. The ball hits the bag, and Vinny P goes yard. Salve, okay, so I'm watching.
I watch the 15-minute recaps every morning that MLB provides on their app. When Salve homered, I fist-pumped. which is weird. I mean, it's just rooting for olds, rooting for studs a little bit. And then the highlight kept going, and I was like, oh, no, no, stop the highlight, stop the highlight. It doesn't stop.
Detroit has won six in a row, and the Royals, there's some good numbers, but the number that matters doesn't keep showing up, y'all.
Yeah, I mean, their rotation's been awesome, but basically everything else has been lackluster. I mean, I think the bullpen stuff really started with Carlos Estevez coming out and not being the same guy.
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Chapter 7: What challenges are the Houston Astros facing with their pitching staff?
That is like the head of the snake getting cut off, and they've been kind of scrambling ever since back there. And a lot of what we said in the preseason was like, this team goes as far as Bobby Wood Jr. takes them, and he hasn't gotten off to a bad start. He's held to a different standard, so if he doesn't go... to that level, it holds the team back a little bit.
I'm always a little hard on the Royals whenever I come on the show just because the one year they made it was the year that the White Sox lost 120 games and we had three teams from the AL Central. So I wanted to see them succeed when it felt like you couldn't just stat pad against the White Sox, if that makes sense. And we saw that with...
the guardians and tigers last year, who both made it to the playoffs and both had nice years while the Royals kind of took that step back. I still really believe in this pitching staff is specifically the rotation, but you know, they need better performances out of Vinny P and Sal. And I mean, India has not really been the same ever since he got there.
I am really excited for Jack Aglione, though. He's had a nice start to the year after what was a really tough couple months that he had last year where it looked like he got called up too soon. It's nice to see him succeed after the team Italy stuff. But this is a back-breaking series to lose these three games the way they did where they led in all three of them.
They had a chance to sweep a division rival on their turf and instead it 180s into the worst possible outcome. And you hope that it just doesn't spiral beyond this.
They're heading to the Bronx. Okay. Which I didn't put together. Maybe I do send the Vinny P text. He doesn't want to see me. He would like from a distance. He likes you. Likes me. We're coming up on our anniversary of meeting. It was the NFL draft the year before he got called up. I was inebriated. I didn't know who Vinny P was.
Wow. You know a lot of baseball players. I'm pretty shocked by that. Dude, jolly.
He was up, though, right? The guy who's probably the best social media content player we have. To ever exist, probably. I met him before he got called up, and you've seen me in a lot of environments. I normally overextend myself. We were at our third bar. And I was just like, oh, nice to meet you, dude, blah, blah, blah. But I was like, I'm kind of hanging out with my crew right now.
I didn't actually big time him, but I didn't give him the normal Jake response.
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Chapter 8: Who are the standout players making an impact this week?
And now it's fucking Vinny Pasquantino.
Sometimes it be like that, you know? Ain't that life. He brought us Chipotle the first time I met him. Really nice guy. Good guy. Good for the house.
Tigers. Yeah, I was debating giving out some standout and rewards to them. It's a similar speech. Riley Green, I think, is just one of the best players in this league. I think if he played at a better baseball stadium, we would be just more impressed by him and how good he is at his age, that me and Trevor had a little brother's bicker about him. And then McGonigal, I'm all in.
Part of me, jokingly, my Harry Potter side wants to nickname him the professor and pivot that off of the professor, the streetball player. Mm-hmm. They've both been going, I looked at it, it was like Tiger stats last week. Yeah. Right? Who's balling out? Riley Green, McGonigal. Dylan Dingler doesn't get mentioned enough. Dylan Dingler, dude.
Dylan Dingler is a top blank catcher. I think he's an AL All-Star this year. Is that even a hot take? I don't think it is. I don't think it is. Did you guys talk McGonigal extension?
at all dude okay I'll give you something and this is for Rob and Dalt too whenever these guys get extended and we're like let's talk about it I don't know what to say it's always a good deal good it's always a good deal like why not I think the Cooper Pratt one pushes it a little bit a little bit I think we come on but with McGonagall he just comes up and he instantly looks like a dude yeah why would you not give him that much money
You know he's going to be good.
It's been funny online to see some of the conjecture. Is that the right word? Yeah. Discourse. Yeah. Sure. That I've seen a lot of people being like, hey, if teams keep doing this, that means it's more beneficial for the team than the player. And it's like, kind of. We're playing a game here that these guys are securing silly money. Yeah.
Yes, if the team does this right for about three years, they should get much better value.
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