Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about omissions from their Baseball Twitter draft, a few transactions (including the Kyle Lewis trade, the Gio Urshela trade, and multiple shortstop swaps), the Angels acquiring average players, the Dodgers non-tendering Cody Bellinger, the Phillies extending Dave Dombrowski, the new BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot and Ben’s ballot decision, a series of sports-betting investigations, a college-baseball trailblazer, comeback players of the year, and more, plus Stat Blasts (54:28) about Aaron Judge and intra-team WAR gaps, the most unique players put out, consecutive innings with double plays, and the timing of game-winning runs, a Past Blast (1:04:06) from 1933, and an Angels postscript.

Audio outro: Mimi Roman, “Never Ramble, Never Gamble, Never Roam”

Link to Heyman tweet

Link to Baer tweet

Link to Nightengale tweet

Link to Bautista tweet

Link to Justin Choi on Lewis

Link to Baumann on shortswaps

Link to MLBTR on Dombrowski

Link to MLBTR on Bellinger

Link to Jay on the BBWAA ballot

Link to Jay on the committee ballot

Link to EW on Ben’s ballot last year

Link to NYT sports-betting thread

Link to NYT sports-betting article 1

Link to NYT sports-betting article 2

Link to NYT sports-betting article 3

Link to NYT sports-betting article 4

Link to Olivia Pichardo news

Link to comeback players story

Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter

Link to WAR-gap Stat Blast data

Link to putouts Stat Blast data

Link to game-winning-runs data

Link to Rob Mains on comebacks

Link to 1933 story source

Link to SABR on Browns ownership

Link to MLB.com on the Browns

Link to SABR on Jackie in Montreal

Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website

Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter

Link to MLBTR on the Renfroe trade

Link to tweet about Renfroe and Trout

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