The 5 Best Things In Baseball This Week including Jose Altuve's home run rampage, a Braves-Dodgers series that delivered, an Astros fan interview that became an instant classic (plus a reenactment!), the possibility of Mike Trout and Pete Alonso being dealt, promising New York Yankees youth, and whether Japanese superstar Yoshinobu Yamamoto will sign with an MLB team next season. All that, plus Tas and Joel pull out some hilarious baseball cards after reliving the Keith Comstock story.

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