Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley rant and banter (ranter?) about MLB’s strategy to selling the Futures Recreation, then (17:33) talk about superheroes throwing baseballs, the newest exploits of the semi-superpowered Shohei Ohtani and Sandy Alcantara, and Ohtani’s probabilities towards Aaron Judge (and others) within the AL MVP race, Stat Blast (39:03) about dropping groups with two hyper-productive gamers and pitchers with probably the most even pitch-type distributions, entertain the thought (59:59) of adjusting WAR for high quality of competitors due to position-player pitchers, speculate about Decide’s free-agent contract, spotlight Luis Arraez’s pursuit of Ted Williams, an Andrew Vaughn hidden-ball-trick try, Charlie Blackmon’s walk-up tune, a fateful Rockies shift, observe (1:23:10) which groups’ playoff chances have risen or sunk probably the most within the final month and react to MLB’s asterisk-esque All-Star Recreation caps, and shut (1:32:32) with a Previous Blast from 1872.
Audio intro: Standing Quo, “The Future’s So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)”
Audio outro: Coronary heart, “Hijinx”
Link to Futures Game rosters
Link to Jarrett Seidler on MiLB talent
Link to 2023 WBC announcement
Link to The Boys Season 1 clip
Link to Invincible clip
Link to Superman Returns clip
Link to Alvarez throw
Link to video about baseball movies
Link to story on Judge’s 30th homer
Link to story about Ohtani’s game
Link to FG combined WAR leaderboard
Link to Angels PR tweet
Link to other Angels PR tweet
Link to third Angels PR tweet
Link to Jeremy Frank tweet
Link to video of HRs off of VanMeter
Link to Katie Sharp tweet
Link to Stathead
Link to Stat Blast list of losing teams
Link to Dan on sub-replacement Angels
Link to Alcantara’s pitch usage
Link to least-used-top-pitch data
Link to lowest-standard-deviation data
Link to Rob Mains on adjusted offense
Link to Craig on Judge’s contract
Link to PPP velo by year
Link to Patrick on the Rockies’ loss
Link to tweet about the Rockies’ positioning
Link to clip of Rockies-Dodgers play
Link to TikTok of Blackmon’s song
Link to playoff odds changes
Link to France ASG video
Link to asterisky Astros cap
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1872 story source
Link to history of infield fly rule
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