Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs authors Michael Baumann and Ben Clemens play “SEC Baseball Player vs. Figure Involved in the Lincoln Assassination,” banter about two umpire faux pas (3:45) and MLB’s tweaks to replay reviewing (9:45), and then (17:32) each make 10 predictions about baseball in 2023 to be voted on by listeners, followed (1:40:16) by two Past Blasts from 1987.

Audio outro: The Baseball Project, “All Future and No Past”

Link to listener voting form

Link to Realmuto ejection

Link to AP on Realmuto

Link to Romo outing

Link to Stark on replay reviews

Link to story on Zoom replay reviews

Link to Dave Cameron on slide reviews

Link to Cameron on transfers

Link to Vogelbach/Showalter spot

Link to Clay Davenport on SBs

Link to FanGraphs playoff odds

Link to “Gay Bar”by Electric Six

Link to Rob Arthur on bat cracks

Link to Rob on bat cracks again

Link to MLBTR on Giménez’s extension

Link to 2022 Rockies deadline story

Link to Acuña 50-50 story

Link to Stark on the pie slice

Link to Bloomberg on match-fixing

Link to more on match-fixing

Link to snooker match-fixing story

Link to tennis match-fixing story

Link to Past Blast piece on brawls

Link to Pont Past Blast source

Link to more on Pont

Link to Pont’s wiki

Link to Pont’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to Chris Hanel’s Twitter

Link to Chris Hanel’s website

Another link to listener voting form

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