Episode Details

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Kevin McGonigle’s new contract and whether pre-arbitration extensions are still team-friendly, Tatsuya Imai’s adjustment period, MLB’s average four-seam fastball velo nearing 95 mph, a new frontier in catcher’s interference calls, and whether a new challenge signal should replace the head/helmet tap, then (1:21:02) Stat Blast about a historic scoring day, games in which the score most often matched the inning, homering against all other teams while playing for one team (and the most homers without going deep twice against the same team), opposing pitchers catching pop-ups in the same game, driving in oneself and no one else, and season-starting streaks of games with a lead.

Audio intro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Luke Lillard, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to MLBTR on McGonigle
Link to Paine on extensions 1
Link to Paine on extensions 2
Link to Ball on extensions
Link to Nightengale on extensions
Link to Rome on Imai
Link to Imai synopsis
Link to Rome on interpreters
Link to story on Duran incident
Link to Statcast velo by year
Link to Pitch Info velo by year
Link to Pitch Info info

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