Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani and the Cy Young Award, Buck Showalter and the Manager of the Year Award, Bryce Harper’s elbow surgery, the Angels signing Tyler Anderson, Anthony Rizzo and the Yankees’ record Defensive Runs Saved total, the Mariners trading for Teoscar Hernández, title inflation and the “associate manager,” and Royals owner John Sherman requesting a new ballpark, plus a double Past Blast (38:21) from 1930 (featuring Jack Powell’s meaty demise). Then (51:06) they talk to FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen about AFL award winners Heston Kjerstad and Connor Thomas, whether improvements carry over when players change teams, how rules changes are affecting player evaluation, this week’s 40-man-deadline roster crunches, and Kodai Senga and other NPB players who are coming to MLB.

Audio interstitial: Jordana, “Crunch”

Audio outro: The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, “Mr. Powell”

Link to MLB.com on Showalter

Link to Ben Clemens on Anderson

Link to Hawk Harrelson call

Link to Jay Jaffe on Rizzo

Link to highest team DRS totals

Link to Defensive Efficiency leaders

Link to Esteban Rivera on Teoscar

Link to MLBTR on Venable

Link to Sherman’s tweet

Link to Field of Schemes on Sherman

Link to AFL award winners

Link to FG prospect rankings

Link to Laurila on Boras

Link to Alex Eisert on Hilliard

Link to Evan Drellich on rule changes

Link to R.J. Anderson on rule changes

Link to MLBTR on the Rays’ roster

Link to Eric’s AL East piece

Link to Eric on Latin-American SP

Link to MLBTR on Nolan Jones

Link to 1930 story source

Link to SABR on William Veeck Sr.

Link to SABR on Margaret Donohue

Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website

Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter

Link to @OldBaseballNews on Twitter

Link to article about Bill Haber

Link to first Powell article

Link to second Powell article

Link to NL Cy results

Link to Ben on Alcantara

Link to AL Cy results

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