Ben Lindbergh convenes a roundtable of hitting analysts—Robert Orr from Baseball Prospectus, Esteban Rivera from FanGraphs, and Ryan Parker, formerly of Baseball Prospectus and the Los Angeles Angels—to diagnose the problems with free agent Cody Bellinger’s much-diminished bat and recommend how to revive it. They also discuss their approaches to analyzing hitting, coachability, the differences between public and private hitting analysis, the importance of mashing mistakes, the Angels, and more. Then (1:15:03) Ben closes with a Past Blast from 1934 and a few followups about Bellinger, tweets, and assists on strikeouts.

Audio outro: The Killers, “Cody”

Link to Dan Szymborski on Bellinger

Link to story on Bellinger’s shoulder

Link to story on Bellinger’s leg

Link to Chris Gilligan on Bellinger

Link to Ken Rosenthal on Bellinger

Link to Prospects Live on Bellinger

Link to Bellinger vs. Musgrove K

Link to Versalles SABR bio

Link to SwingGraphs

Link to SwingGraphs data

Link to Esteban on Acuña

Link to Esteban on vertical bat angle

Link to Robert on crushing cookies

Link to Rosenthal on Angels moves

Link to Joon Lee on the Angels system

Link to EW with Clay Bellinger

Link to 1934 story source

Link to Biele article series

Link to story on Ella Black

Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website

Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter

Link to MLBTR on Harper’s TJ

Link to Blue Jays tweet

Link to Canseco at Vice

Link to Canseco on time travel

Link to assists story 1

Link to assists story 2

Link to assists story 3

Link to assists story 4

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