Episode Details

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Pirates calling up top pitching prospect Paul Skenes, Mookie Betts’s shortstop defense, Willson Contreras, the causes of increasingly common catcher’s interference calls, and catcher technique in an ABS world, rampant reliever shuffling, Chase Anderson as a Phiten necklace “endling,” two ways in which amateur prospects are possibly being exploited or disrupted, Ippei Mizuhara’s guilty plea, Shohei Ohtani’s WAR and two-way future, and a momentous mid-plate-appearance pitching change that never was. Then (1:16:53) they talk to The Athletic writer Andy McCullough about his new book, The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness.

Audio intro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Cory Brent, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to MLBTR on Skenes
Link to SS DRS leaders
Link to BP fielding leaderboard
Link to Petriello on Mookie’s defense
Link to Hancook commercial 1
Link to Hancook commercial 2
Link to Pedroia commercial
Link to Contreras injury video
Link to tweet about Contreras move

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