Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley are joined by FanGraphs’ Eric Longenhagen and Michael Baumann to banter about the Phillies’ outlier legal name, Dave Martinez and the dying art of the theatrical managerial ejection, the benching of Wander Franco, whether the Diamondbacks’, Reds’, and Orioles’ surprising seasons are attributable to MLB’s new rules, and whether bad bullpens are good for baseball, then (59:48) discuss a classic College World Series pitcher’s duel, the College World Series final, whether the Shohei Ohtani comps for Florida’s Jac Caglianone are warranted, college pitch-count controversies, Eric and Michael’s takeaways from the MLB Draft Combine, whether there are indications of a baseball bounceback among young Black athletes, whether the scouts suing MLB over age discrimination are likely to succeed (1:40:57), and more, plus (1:54:05) a Future Blast from 2024.
Audio intro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Cuda tweetLink to latest Martinez ejectionLink to Martinez photo printoutLink to Martinez World Series ejectionLink to Wellman ejectionLink to NYT on ejectionsLink to article on Nevin ejectionsLink to article on Boone ejectionLink to article on Franco benchingLink to Freeman/Acuña commentsLink to story on Franco’s safeLink to Stark on surprise teamsLink to FG BsR dataLink to BP BRR dataLink to BP BRR allowed dataLink to Patrick on bad bullpensLink to Sam on the Royals’ penLink to BP on the Mariners’ penLink to Paine on payroll and standingsLink to Paine’s MANFRED scoresLink to pre-Skenes/Lowder storyLink to post-Skenes/Lowder storyLink to Betteridge’s lawLink to more on Skenes/LowderLink to Passan on CaglianoneLink to WSJ pitch-counts articleLink to Eric’s latest draft rankingsLink to ESPN on Black amateur playersLink to Eric’s Draft Combine footageLink to scout lawsuit articleLink to other scout lawsuit articleLink to Regan lawsuit articleLink to squatting articleLink to stretching articleLink to other stretching articleLink to Rick Wilber’s websiteLink to article on Elly’s cycleLink to MLBTR on WaldronLink to article on qualified catchers
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