Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the the proper pluralization of “POBO,” then (7:12) answer listener emails about baseball with a five-second pitch clock, how long fans will continue to boo pickoff attempts, what it would take for a team to pay a particular fan to attend (or not attend) its games, Freddie Freeman’s base stealing, bringing turnovers to baseball, clubs that could achieve “perfectly average success” in the 30-team era, the limits of fan tolerance for playoff expansion, a proposal for the postseason to be like college bowl season, boosting starting pitchers with a “bullpen bank,” whether Harold Baines would’ve been better off declining Cooperstown induction, Adam Wainwright and the Hall of Fame, and fan voting on Hall of Famers, plus a Stat Blast (1:30:13) about whether awards voting has gotten more homogen(e)ous and closely correlated with WAR.
Audio intro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to POBO pluralization exchangeLink to info on forming pluralsLink to pitch tempo leaderboardLink to speed chess wikiLink to Episode 1453Link to Tango on pickoff attemptsLink to Bruce Chen’s pickoff attemptsLink to Gonny Jomes wikiLink to MLB Ballpark Pass-PortLink to MLB Ballpark appLink to Stathead on 1B SBLink to FG post on Freeman’s stealsLink to L.A. Times on Freeman’s 20–20Link to graphic on Freeman’s 20–20–200Link to Sam on Freeman’s improvementsLink to NYT on O’Neill’s 20–20Link to Stathead on oldest 20–20 guysLink to Pujols steal streak videoLink to H-E-B wikiLink to baseball exceptionalism wikiLink to EW on batters catching pitchesLink to The Athletic fan survey resultsLink to NHL playoff format wikiLink to playoff randomness by sportLink to “paper champions” studyLink to Ben on the SP protagonistLink to Ben on pitcher limitsLink to @dril “turning a big dial” tweetLink to latest Hall of Fame ballotLink to HoF tiers EW discussionLink to article on Baines inductionLink to Ben on BainesLink to Jay Jaffe on Wainwright’s 200thLink to Jay on HoF SP standardsLink to EW episode 114Link to HoF by election methodLink to Ben on Mauer’s candidacyLink to EW emails databaseLink to homogenous vs. homogeneousLink to Kenny Jackelen on TwitterLink to Ryan Nelson on TwitterLink to B-Ref awards voting resultsLink to awards data, all years, with WARLink to awards data with calculationsLink to Ryan’s Stat Blast graphsLink to concentration ratio explainerLink to HHI explainerLink to SABR study on WAR and awardsLink to win probability of scoring teamLink to Secret Santa sign-up sheet
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