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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter a couple of report that Tarik Skubal’s surgically cleaned-up elbow contained solely a solitary “free physique,” why the NL now has the higher hand over the AL and whether or not the latter’s lackluster win-loss information matter, Meg’s thrilling, irritating in-person Paul Skenes spectator expertise, Kazuma Okamoto’s transfer again within the field, and Rico Garcia’s spectacular .000 BABIP streak, plus a follow-up on why good framers have struggled at difficult, listener emails (57:54) about making extra knuckleballers, a popup that by no means comes down, retiring not simply numbers, however names, rotating umpires inside video games, extra-inning non-scoring, and “further bases,” adopted by a bunch of postscript updates.
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