Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about MLB participant chatbots, an Addison Barger giveaway, Tarik Skubal’s huge arbitration win, the Tigers signing Framber Valdez, and a tough week for sports activities media, then (36:29) start the 14th annual EW season preview collection by discussing the 2026 Houston Astros with The Athletic’s Chandler Rome, and the 2026 Arizona Diamondbacks (1:25:35) with The Arizona Republic’s Nick Piecoro, adopted (1:54:53) by a postscript.
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Audio intro: Alex Ferrin, “Successfully Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: Austin Klewan, “Successfully Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 2: Sean .P, “Successfully Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Tom Rhoads, “Successfully Wild Theme”
Hyperlink to chatbots story
Hyperlink to Barger story
Hyperlink to season preview collection wiki
Hyperlink to Passan on Skubal
Hyperlink to Baumann on Skubal
Hyperlink to Dan S. on Framber
Hyperlink to Rosenthal on the Pirates
Hyperlink to Rosenthal on the Tigers
Hyperlink to Chandler on the cross-up
Hyperlink to group SP projections
Hyperlink to NPR on WaPo
Hyperlink to NYT on WaPo sports activities
Hyperlink to The Ringer on WaPo sports activities
Hyperlink to The New Yorker on WaPo
Hyperlink to The Atlantic on WaPo
Hyperlink to Silver on WaPo
Hyperlink to MLB.com layoffs
Hyperlink to Grant put up
Hyperlink to group payrolls
Hyperlink to Astros offseason tracker
Hyperlink to Astros depth chart
Hyperlink to BP IL Ledger
Hyperlink to Dan S. on group accidents
Hyperlink to Chandler on Correa
Hyperlink to Chandler on Imai
Hyperlink to Chandler on the infield
Hyperlink to Chandler on Espada/Brown
Hyperlink to Trueblood on Peña
Hyperlink to Chandler’s creator archive
Hyperlink to Crush Metropolis Territory
Hyperlink to Diamondbacks offseason tracker
Hyperlink to Diamondbacks depth chart
Hyperlink to group RP WAR
Hyperlink to group RP WPA
Hyperlink to ballpark funding deal information
Hyperlink to extra funding deal information
Hyperlink to funding deal opinion piece
Hyperlink to renovations preview
Hyperlink to Nick on the Alexander commerce
Hyperlink to FG put up on Santana
Hyperlink to Nick’s creator archive
Hyperlink to Boehly/Epstein article
Hyperlink to ESPN’s Clase report
Hyperlink to Ben on Clase
Hyperlink to EW episode on Clase
Hyperlink to SABR awards voting
Hyperlink to Wooden/Lolich IP leaderboard
Hyperlink to Lolich obit
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