Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter in regards to the three Taylor Wards, the reality and a number of untruths about Elly De La Cruz’s twin brother, the dominance of 20-year-old Eury Pérez and the Marlins’ utilization dilemma, Luis Arraez’s plate predictions, MVP odds, and underestimation as a prospect, the Mets’ struggles and Buck Showalter’s morbid thoughts, the Orioles’ prospect cornucopia, the debut of part-time knuckleballer Matt Waldron, the Angels’ odd collection loss and infield trades, how Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani are like Woody and Buzz from Toy Story, why the anti-shift guidelines are rising strikeouts, whether or not it’s dangerous for baseball that Rob Manfred acknowledged remorse about his dealing with of the sign-stealing scandal, and the most recent signal of the sports-betting apocalypse, plus a Future Blast from 2025.

Audio intro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Ward scoreboard pictureLink to Ward/Wade wikiLink to tweet about Elly’s brotherLink to photograph of Elly’s brotherLink to misinfo about Elly’s brotherLink to Elly’s “fastest man” quoteLink to Sam on Hamilton’s velocityLink to Ben Clemens on PérezLink to greatest 9-start beginsLink to clip of SchumakerLink to participant predictions wikiLink to 2019 Twins prime prospectsLink to Ben on HUaLLink to Showalter quoteLink to Cohen tweetLink to playoff oddsLink to tweet about Orioles prospectsLink to Jay on WaldronLink to Waldron GIFLink to Jannis on EWLink to Ben on the knuckleballLink to Langs tweetLink to Dan S. on Angels tradesLink to Escobar citizenshipLink to episode on Escobar and FogoLink to Rob on the shift banLink to Lewie on the shift banLink to Manfred’s Time interviewLink to the WSJ on ShamsLink to Awful Announcing on ShamsLink to WaPo on playing/sports mediaLink to stretching articleLink to different stretching articleLink to Rick Wilber’s web siteLink to Sam on single-game WAR

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