Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter in regards to the Mariners clinching the AL West, the advantages and downsides of MVP debates, the ability of nice gamers to reinforce a season for spectators, the Cardinals’ and Giants’ reciprocal eliminations, the near-extinction of the 200-inning pitcher, the Nationals’ new head of baseball ops, and the way predictive a monitor report of adept drafting is. Then (53:15) they reply listener emails about whether or not a participant might/ought to ever problem a ball/strike name that went their manner, whether or not elevated pitcher accidents have contributed to the shortage of nice groups, sticky-stuff inspections on broadcasts, what number of pitches it takes to judge a pitcher, whether or not/why baseball managers incur followers’ wrath greater than different sports activities’ coaches, whether or not groups are turning fewer double performs than they used to, and Trey Yesavage’s many 2025 teammates, plus (1:40:47) a postscript.
Audio intro: El Warren, “Successfully Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Beatwriter, “Successfully Wild Theme”
Hyperlink to 2015 MLB promo
Hyperlink to Ben on Choose vs. Ohtani
Hyperlink to Giants elimination story
Hyperlink to Cardinals elimination story
Hyperlink to pitcher IP leaderboard
Hyperlink to preseason pitcher IP projections
Hyperlink to Passan on Toboni
Hyperlink to MLBTR on Toboni
Hyperlink to WaPo on the Nats
Hyperlink to Ben on pitcher damage charges
Hyperlink to Ben on pitcher workloads
Hyperlink to Rodón quote
Hyperlink to MLB GIDP%
Hyperlink to Jays tweet
Hyperlink to quote-tweet
Hyperlink to Kenny Jackelen
Hyperlink to 2025 teammate leaders
Hyperlink to single-season teammate leaders
Hyperlink to listener emails database
Hyperlink to BP on Blalock
Hyperlink to Blalock leaderboard
Hyperlink to highest ML ERA (min. 55 IP)
Hyperlink to highest ML ERA (min. 100 IP)
Hyperlink to FG wOBA values
Hyperlink to BP location analysis
Hyperlink to FG playoff odds
Hyperlink to Darowski replace
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