Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter in regards to the firing of Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom and the extension of Nationals president of baseball operations Mike Rizzo, accidents to Max Scherzer and Sandy Alcantara and MLB’s UCL scourge, and a proposed tier system for the Hall of Fame and single-season awards, then Stat Blast (1:08:33) about Zack Greinke’s win-loss report, Matt Olson and gamers with extra homers than their group has losses, probably the most group innings with a homer to begin a sport, two gamers 40 or older homering in the identical sport, walk-off balks, high-WAR seasons for a number of groups, and Ian Happ and the longest on-base streaks in opposition to a group, plus a Future Blast (1:38:32) from 2059 and a follow-up.
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Link to Sox press launch
Link to MLBTR on Bloom
Link to Alex Speier on Bloom
Link to Speier on Boston’s ’22 deadline
Link to story on Bloom and Dermody
Link to FG farm rankings
Link to FG payroll rankings
Link to MLBTR on Rizzo
Link to CBS Sports on Rizzo
Link to Rizzo on Strasburg
Link to Lerner’s Stras assertion
Link to MASN settlement
Link to DiPuglia resignation story
Link to scout firings story
Link to Alcantara UCL story
Link to story on velo and UCLs
Link to Sam on UCLs
Link to Ben on pitcher limits
Link to Bill James reply
Link to Posnanski on James
Link to Topps Now
Link to Greinke W-L spreadsheet
Link to Paine on Greinke
Link to Jaffe/Laurila on Greinke
Link to starter run assist
Link to EW 1855 Stat Blast
Link to Olson membership sheet
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to group innings w/HR doc
Link to Ryan on 40+ HR hitters
Link to walk-off-balks sheet
Link to story on second WO balk
Link to Stat Blast on balks
Link to high-WAR multi-team seasons
Link to Drake EW interview
Link to story on Happ’s streak
Link to tweet about Happ’s streak
Link to data on DiMaggio scoring
Link to Sam on on-base streaks
Link to on-base-streak sheet
Link to on-base-in-starts streaks
Link to Rick Wilber’s web site
Link to Future Blast wiki
Link to Edman article
Link to switch-SH sheet
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