Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about redefining the MVP award, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s unearthed baseball blogs, Billy Beane’s new role with the A’s, and the Braves’ spinoff from Liberty Media, plus a Past Blast from 1931. Then (30:27) they bring on listener and top-tier Patreon supporter Peter Bonney to discuss his baseball background and answer listener emails about baseball economics and the leaguewide effects of low-spending owners, an open-ended player to be named later, batters weeping intentionally, the art of arbitrary endpoints, PitchCom voice actors, how many MLB games are available via video, a team award for the regular season, how to order umpires by accuracy in the World Series, holistic Hall of Famers, and having to win three straight games to win the World Series.

Audio interstitial: The Claudettes, “Dozing in the Crypt”

Audio outro: The Mother Hips, “Payroll Peter”

Link to AL MVP results

Link to NL MVP results

Link to The Ringer FTX explainer

Link to Bloomberg on FTX

Link to Milky Eggs on FTX

Link to SBF’s baseball blog posts

Link to SBF’s first post

Link to SBF’s first pitcher-roles post

Link to SBF’s second pitcher-roles post

Link to SBF on fetishization of the old

Link to Dave Cameron’s pitching post

Link to SBF’s 2021 Twitter thread

Link to story on FTX lawsuit

Link to Ohtani/FTX press release

Link to Manfred on FTX

Link to MLBTR on Beane

Link to Liberty Media announcement

Link to Travis Sawchik on the Braves

Link to 1931 story source

Link to SABR on night baseball

Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website

Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter

Link to Peter’s THT articles

Link to Peter’s umpire presentation

Link to Peter’s Fenway presentation

Link to Peter’s company

Link to Kwan on strikeouts

Link to The Gist on polarization

Link to Sawchik on PitchCom

Link to Pujols homer reel

Link to Dayn on a team award

Link to the Stat Blast song

Link to the EW emails database

Link to Ryan Nelson’s MVP tweet

Link to MLBTR on Bellinger

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