Episode 306: Closing out April with a Bang Asians In Baseball

Can you believe this is only the first month of the season?! 

First, this year's hottest collab is MLB x Kpop groups! And there are HOW MANY of our guys on the IL right now?!

Then, position player news: Tommy Pham and the White Sox make it official, Masataka Yoshida could use some more playing time, Anthony Volpe takes a big swing on his birthday, and there are a lot of guys raking right now, but Travis d'Arnaud is the home run KING.

And our pitchers are on fire! Shota Imanaga has a start to his MLB career for the record books, Yoshinobu Yamamoto silences the haters and shows off some gold glove reflexes, World Series Champ Dane Dunning has a 0BB 10K game, and Yusei Kikuchi and Shohei Ohtani face off in Toronto. 

So of course, we have to talk about Torontogate - Ohtani arrives at Rogers Centre to an ice-cold crowd, but his bat does the talking for him. And could he POSSIBLY pass the record set by Dave Roberts for most HR by a Japanese-born Dodger?!?! (Yes. The record is 7.)

Travis d'Arnaud throws out JRam: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6UbYltuUk9/

Shota Imanaga becomes a meme: https://tinyurl.com/3fz6fedr

Yamamoto saves his own life: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6MzDLApbNI/

Tickets to Kim's solo show Trauma Response on 5/4 in Minneapolis and 5/7 in LA! linktr.ee/kimcoopie


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