On episode 2 of An NL Central Podcast, Rob Mains, Alex Crisafulli, and Brandon Lee discuss the happenings in the division over the past month, including an assessment of the Pittsburgh Pirates so far, how the Cardinals should forget about April (but not Aledmys Diaz), and dive a little deeper into Rob’s quality starts article...  Read more »

An NL Central Podcast: Episode 2 (Rob Mains, Alex Crisafulli, Brandon Lee)

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Brandon Lee and Alex Crisafulli talk about Mike Dunn, Mike Dunne, Stephen Piscotty, Yu Darvish, Cubs vs Rays, "this season" vs "last season," favorite 2017 moments, and SNES sports games, then cap things off.

BttP Podcast 70: Offseason Moves, Baseball Vocab, Favorite ’17 Moments, Gaming

Brandon Lee, Mike Carlucci, and Nick Strangis talk about Mike's visit to Saber Seminar 2017 (and seeing Effectively Wild live), a look back at a 2006 trade, Nick's visits to SunTrust Park in Atlanta, and a draft of jersey names for Players Weekend.

BttP Podcast 69: Saber Seminar, an Old Trade, SunTrust Park, Players Weekend

The podcast returns from a hiatus as Darius Austin, Daniel Epstein, and Brandon Lee discuss FiveThirtyEight’s fan survey and Statcast’s Sprint Speed metric, hold a draft of trade candidates, and review the Jeff Sullivan era...  Read more »

Bttp Podcast 68: Fan Survey, Trade Candidates, and Effectively Wild

In this all-banter episode of an NL Central Podcast, Eric, Alex, and Brandon predict Eric Thames for the rest of the season, discuss Paul O’Neill kicking a baseball, whether Brandon should worry about the Cubs,...  Read more »

An NL Central Podcast: First-Week-of-May Banter

Banished to the Pen's full NL Central Podcast team got together to preview the 2017 National League Central. Alex Crisafulli, Eric Roseberry, Rob Mains, Ross Bukouricz, and Brandon Lee went around the horn to give their takes and answer questions about the Cardinals, Reds, Pirates, Brewers, and Cubs.

An NL Central Podcast: Episode 2 (Rob Mains, Alex Crisafulli, Brandon Lee)

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