Ben Lindbergh addresses an interview improve on the previous episode, chats with FanGraphs’ Dan Szymborski about Luis Arraez’s probabilities of batting .400, Stat Blasts (22:36) about extremes in workforce profitable and dropping streaks, welcomes in David Lewis (28:00) for the ultimate Past Blast, and talks to prolific science fiction (and baseball science fiction) creator Rick Wilber (44:48) about being the son of huge leaguer Del Wilber, his profession and love for baseball and sci-fi, and the podcast’s forthcoming Future Blast collection, plus a postscript (1:26:00) about Tyler Wells and Taylor Walls, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, Rob Manfred and public ballpark funding, contentious performs on the plate, and a brand new walk-up-music database.
Audio intro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Carleton interview episode
Link to MLB.com on Arraez
Link to Statcast park components
Link to Foolish thread on AVG+
Link to AVG+ leaderboard
Link to story about Reds’ newest win
Link to Reds streak enjoyable reality
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to longest in-season-streaks sheet
Link to extra streaks knowledge
Link to Past Blast EW wiki web page
Link to 2023 Past Blast supply
Link to Ben on the pitch clock
Link to Ben on the pitch clock once more
Link to B-Ref’s new guidelines web page
Link to Rickwood Field story
Link to Hinchliffe Stadium story
Link to first Dick Trueman episode
Link to second Dick Trueman episode
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Rick Wilber’s web site
Link to Wilber’s baseball works
Link to My Father’s Game
Link to Del Wilber’s SABR bio
Link to Lucky Starr wiki
Link to Wade/Ward wiki
Link to Trout/Betts interview
Link to Trout/Ohtani at-bat
Link to Bochy ejection video
Link to Melvin ejection video
Link to the NYT on plate-blocking
Link to Heim’s replay-review gesture
Link to Manfred’s Time interview
Link to students survey on funding
Link to story on the Astros remark
Link to commerce bushes website
Link to commerce values website
Link to string on walk-up-songs website
Link to MLB walk-up-songs website
Link to The Walk-Up Database
Link to walk-up-site requests thread
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