Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about how a lot Shohei Ohtani’s teammates helped him win his third MVP award, his unbelievable four-season stretch, whether or not Dekopin/Decoy is basically his canine, the opposite MVP and Cy Younger outcomes, a Joey Meneses signing, Austin Slater and the virtues of being a group’s “high goal,” the Rays’ confounding stadium technique, the various pronunciations of “envelope,” a listener query about RSN possession, the seventh annual Successfully Wild Secret Santa, and extra, plus a postscript Stat Blast (1:15:40) about gamers whose entire MLB careers have been confined to “non-MLB” ballparks.
Audio intro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Ohtani interview
Link to Ohtani quote
Link to preseason projections
Link to Episode 2140
Dekopin clip
Link to MLB.com on Ohtani
Link to AL MVP voting
Link to NL MVP voting
Link to AL Cy voting
Link to NL Cy voting
Link to MLBTR on Meneses
Link to Sox Machine on Slater
Link to Rays letter story
Link to DRaysBay on funding 1
Link to DRaysBay on funding 2
Link to Calcaterra on the Rays
Link to Manfred on the Rays
Link to Joe on the RSN era
Link to Rangers RSN story
Link to ROOT schedule
Link to Ben Zimmer’s website
Link to Ben on Wolfe
Link to first pronunciation
Link to second pronunciation
Link to summer sausage episode
Link to Secret Santa sign-up form
Link to listener emails database
Link to 2020-only players
Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter
Link to Andrew Lowden’s cover
Link to “The Good in Everyone”
Link to Stat Blast parks list
Link to Stat Blast players list
Link to Reddit comment
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