Episode Details

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Edwin Díaz’s season-ending injury at the WBC and the anti-WBC sentiment it engendered, then (20:39) bring on top-tier Patreon supporter Michael Eisen to discuss his history with Effectively Wild and baseball and how his scientific research is analogous to baseball research, before answering listener emails (31:29) about the best way to use an ambidextrous pitcher, reenacting a specific baseball game, what it would be like if baseball players were worse than they used to be, mutual pitch-calling, a league with only hitters or pitchers, a possible upside of cheating, the pitch clock and the hidden-ball trick, whether MLB games used to be closer, ending the Yankees’ facial-hair policy, a “pitch jingle,” and even bigger bases, plus a Past Blast (1:48:06) from 1981.

Audio intro: Andy Ellison, “Accident Waiting to Happen”
Audio outro: Jeff Eliassen, “Michael”

Link to “arrow in the knee” wiki
Link to Baumann on Díaz
Link to Jon Tayler on the Díaz game
Link to Díaz injury video
Link to MLBTR on Díaz injury
Link to Mets spring celebration video
Link to Olbermann comments
Link to Ohtani throwing 102
Link to story on upcoming WBCs
Link to Michael’s UC Berkeley page
Link to Michael’s blog
Link to Michael’s wiki
Link to “The Impossible Dream” video
Link to FG pitcher stuff stats

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