Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about pre-Opening Day milestones and the upcoming EW season preview series, then (7:59) draft and discuss their favorite offseason transactions (and non-transactions), followed by a Past Blast from 1964 (1:16:19) and a Stat Blast addendum (1:21:18) about Pinky Higgins, Roxie Lawson, and hits-related records.

Audio outro: Ward White, “1964”

Link to Red Sox Truck Day

Link to Guardians Truck Day

Link to Phillies Truck Day

Link to season preview series wiki

Link to 2021 preview podcasts

Link to list of transactions

Link to Ben on K.C.’s outfield

Link to FG on the Varsho trade

Link to Ben Clemens on Varsho

Link to Ben L. on the Mets and Correa

Link to FG on the Twins and Correa

Link to FG SP depth charts

Link to Heyman’s Correa report

Link to FG on the Cruz signing

Link to FG on the McCutchen signing

Link to FG on the Hill signing

Link to FG on the Bogaerts signing

Link to FG on the Turner signing

Link to FG on the Devers extension

Link to story on NESN and boos

Link to FG on Murphy/Contreras

Link to ESPN on the Arenado decision

Link to FG on the Syndergaard signing

Link to The Athletic on Syndergaard

Link to FG on the Renfroe trade

Link to FG on the Anderson signing

Link to FG on the Estévez signing

Link to FG on the Contreras signing

Link to FG on the Green signing

Link to The Athletic team grades

Link to 1964 story source

Link to SABR on the ’64 Meetings

Link to commissioner’s powers paper

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to news on YouTube TV and MLBN

Link to story on Orioles lease

Link to Dan Moore EW episode

Link to Bradbury thread on Camden

Link to FG team projections

Link to The Core Stat Blast episode

Link to Higgins vs. Lawson H2H

Link to story on consecutive hits

Link to story on hits recordholders

Link to story on Higgins record

Link to other mention of Higgins record

Link to first story about spiking

Link to second story about spiking

Link to third story about spiking

Link to fourth story about spiking

Link to Craig Wright on spikings

Link to Higgins SABR bio

Link to Lawson SABR bio

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