Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s daughter’s first steps, follow up on differentiating players with the same name, equipment replacements, and suggested recreational sports for Ben to play, and then discuss the Royals’ remade coaching staff (19:43), the career of the late, all-time-great Gaylord Perry (22:57), and the latest ESPN Crasnick/Rogers annual offseason MLB insiders survey (44:58), plus answers to listener emails (1:04:33) about an MLB awards ceremony, pitcher wins, and the Tigers’ rebuild, a Past Blast from 1937 (1:31:11), and a postscript.

Audio outro: Jim Noir, “JJC Sports”

Link to Jeongeun Lee6 LPGA page

Link to Bradley forgetting outs

Link to The Athletic on Sweeney

Link to Royals Review on Sweeney

Link to Manfred statement on Perry

Link to MLB.com’s Perry obit

Link to Perry’s SABR bio

Link to Perry’s book

Link to Nate on pitcher hitting

Link to Sam on pitcher hitting

Link to Eno on old pitchers

Link to 44+ pitchers by year

Link to latest ESPN survey

Link to Sam on the insiders

Link to Russell on the shift

Link to execs on rule changes

Link to EW emails database

Link to Smyth on qualifiers

Link to Mains on qualifiers

Link to Miller on qualifiers

Link to awards dinner info

Link to Poscast episode

Link to 1937 story source

Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website

Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter

Link to MLBTR on Eflin

Link to strike-zone EW episode

Link to shuttlecock article

Link to road-attendance sheet

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