Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani main MLB in WAR and the variety of instances his hitting has leapfrogged his pitching or vice versa, the EW viewers’s verdict on who gained the pod’s latest 26-under-25 draft, the suddenly-quite-competitive A’s-Royals race for the worst document in baseball, a painful ending to a school playoff recreation and the evolving dialog about pitch counts for faculty starters, the pitch clock’s influence on efficiency and accidents, one potential draw back to the pitch clock reaching NPB, the Diamondbacks’ “victory vest,” and The Athletic’s layoffs and the state of sports media, plus a Past Blast from 2019.

Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Ohtani’s first homerLink to Ohtani’s second homerLink to MLB.com on drained OhtaniLink to The Athletic on drained OhtaniLink to FG WAR leaderboardLink to B-Ref WAR leaderboardLink to 26-under-25 draftLink to draft voting outcomesLink to Carroll/Henderson awardsLink to Royals/A’s publishLink to tweet about school recreation endingLink to varsity TOOTBLANLink to varsity dropped ballLink to Cooper on pitch countsLink to Jake on MathewsLink to longer thread on MathewsLink to Romano’s quote tweetLink to 2016 research on school workloadsLink to 2018 school workloads researchLink to Dan S. on the pitch clockLink to Jim Allen on the NPB clockLink to report on the NPB clockLink to victory vest storyLink to MLB’s Realmuto tweetLink to “cyclone” tweetLink to hockey’s “three stars”Link to FG’s three gamers of the sportLink to WaPo’s The Athletic reportLink to FOS The Athletic reportLink to 2017 story about The AthleticLink to Axios media e-newsletterLink to 2019 Past Blast supplyLink to 2015 robot-ump recreationLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to MLBTR on the Nevada voteLink to Pujols hiring publish

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