Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about watching Shohei Ohtani play while they podcast, the Angels’ decision not to trade Ohtani and subsequent trade for Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo López, whether the Cubs should buy or sell, the Guardians’ and Dodgers’ perplexing Amed Rosario-for-Noah Syndergaard swap, the Brewers acquiring Carlos Santana, and Rob Manfred’s extension. Then (45:05) they answer emails about dugout punching bags and whether the ABS system could help umps (and players) learn the strike zone, react (59:44) to the rest of Ohtani’s doubleheader exploits, Stat Blast (1:06:55) about the Orioles’ sweepless streak, the most hits recorded by the fewest batters when that number of hits is the team’s total, first career hits that are also first career hits allowed, player homerless streaks, the high-scoring fifth game after the All-Star break, and players being traded together twice, plus a Future Blast (1:27:48) from 2038 and a few follow-ups.
Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Verducci’s Ohtani reportLink to Ben C. on the Giolito tradeLink to FG staff Ohtani postLink to FG playoff oddsLink to BP IL LedgerLink to Britton on buy/sell decisionsLink to Shohei doubleheader storyLink to Shohei doubleheader fun factsLink to FG on Dodgers-Guardians tradeLink to FG on Hernández tradeLink to team SS WAR leadersLink to Dodgers SS WAR leadersLink to Sheehan on the CubsLink to Manfred extension articleLink to Athletic article on ABSLink to sweepless streaks tweetLink to most hits by fewest playersLink to first-career-hits dataLink to homerless streaks dataLink to trade pairs listLink to 5th post-ASB game imageLink to 5th post-ASB game image 2Link to Craig Wright on 1894Link to Ben on moving the moundLink to EW emails databaseLink to Rick Wilber’s websiteLink to EW Ohtani trading gameLink to Ohtani trading game responses
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