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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether or not Dodgers catcher Dalton Speeding is the brand new reigning redass of MLB, and the primary in-depth he-said, they-said mud-slinging about Craig Breslow and Boston’s teaching cull. Then (35:19) they Stat Blast in regards to the longest streaks of sequence wins and non-losses to begin a season (or at any level in a season), lapping the league in run differential, and batterymates who have been beforehand exchanged in a commerce, earlier than bringing on Ben Clemens of FanGraphs (49:36) to speak about whether or not Munetaka Murakami’s scorching begin is sustainable (and in that case, why he was extensively underestimated), how the strike zone has been shrunk and reshaped within the ABS period—considerably counterintuitively, not simply due to overturned calls—and the potential quick/long-term results on scoring.
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