Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani’s newest exploits and career-best WAR tempo, the Angels’ playoff hopes, Corbin Carroll’s physique, and Mickey Moniak’s fluky-but-fun scorching streak, then (20:55) reply listener emails about how large a scandal it will be if Ohtani turned out to be two twins, when managers would select to take in-game mulligans, and which stat ought to substitute errors within the conventional line rating, adopted by a Meet a Major Leaguer section (54:00) that includes Keaton Winn and Ricky Karcher (in addition to Joe Jacques and Stan Musial), Stat Blasts (1:18:45) about Zack Greinke and the widest pitch-speed spreads and Jo Adell and the gamers with the largest profession gaps between their Triple-A and MLB manufacturing, plus a Past Blast (1:39:30) from 2021.

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Link to Ohtani’s oppo homersLink to Ohtani oppo graphicLink to Ohtani’s Statcast documentLink to story on Ohtani’s sequenceLink to Ohtani’s HR leadLink to Blum’s bat tweetLink to Ohtani’s streakLink to Neil Paine on OhtaniLink to Ohtani sweepers by beginLink to Ohtani sweepers vs. LHBLink to FG playoff oddsLink to Angels wRC+ leadersLink to The Athletic on MoniakLink to minor league chase leadersLink to MLB swing-rate leadersLink to article on CarrollLink to Dan Bern’s Ohtani musicLink to Canseco conspiracyLink to Atlantic League EW episodeLink to Craig/Báez playLink to Minor’s 2 hundredth strikeout storyLink to different Ben on line scoresLink to trendy field rating storyLink to EW emails databaseLink to record of saves in debutsLink to MLB.com on Winn’s debutLink to McCovey Chronicles on WinnLink to story on Giants bullpen WARLink to toothpaste/Sriracha tweetLink to Karcher interviewLink to Karcher pitch plotLink to Karcher article 1Link to Karcher article 2Link to Karcher article 3Link to Karcher article 4Link to Jacques call-up article 1Link to Jacques call-up article 2Link to Jacques debut playLink to Jacques interviewLink to Jacques different interviewLink to Musial/Jacques questionLink to Musial storyLink to 2023 new debutsLink to Topps Now playing cardsLink to pitch-speed-spread leadersLink to new Greinke tales articleLink to EW episode on Greinke talesLink to active-pitcher spreadsLink to Simon pitch spreadsLink to Padilla pitch spreadsLink to consecutive-pitches Stat BlastLink to Lucas Apostoleris on TwitterLink to Triple-A/MLB gaps spreadsheetLink to Triple-A/MLB hypothetical e mailLink to intra-season AAA/MLB hole BlastLink to Ben on the majors/minors holeLink to Kenny Jackelen on TwitterLink to Home Run Challenge press launchLink to Home Run Challenge leaderboardLink to donate to Home Run ChallengeLink to 2021 Past Blast supplyLink to Ben on transferring the moundLink to Ben/Rob on the outcomesLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s Substack

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