Ben Lindbergh and Noah Woodward of the newsletter The Advance Scout discuss Noah’s front-office career, the impact of the MLB rules changes on pace/time of game, the running game, and hitting and defense so far, how players may adapt, the questions Ben and Noah still have about the rules’ long-term effects, Rob Manfred’s characterization of analytics as “an arms race to nowhere,” and more. Then (1:00:26) Ben brings on LJ Rader of the Twitter/Instagram account Art But Make It Sports to explain how he cleverly juxtaposes sports scenes with images of paintings and sculptures, whether baseball lends itself well to his work, and his best baseball images, plus a Past Blast (1:40:16) from 1989 and a few closing thoughts (1:46:42).

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Link to Noah’s Substack

Link to Noah’s BP archive

Link to Noah on changeups

Link to Noah on back-picks

Link to Noah on pickoffs

Link to Noah on pickoff substitutes

Link to Noah on Greinke

Link to article on clock momentum

Link to Jaffe on late-season momentum

Link to Dan S. on playoff momentum

Link to Russell on momentum

Link to Mariners-fan countdown

Link to Sam on Corbin

Link to Baumann on Orioles running

Link to Ben C. on steals

Link to Volpe SB article

Link to Jeff on Lester

Link to Jayson Stark on OF shifts

Link to new “sweeper” classification

Link to Ben on the pitch clock

Link to Ben on pitcher limits

Link to Ben on mound moving

Link to Tango on game times

Link to Petriello on BABIP

Link to Passan on stat changes

Link to Manfred on analytics

Link to Lewie Pollis on EW

Link to Lewie on leaving a dream job

Link to Lewie’s follow-up piece

Link to R.J. on front-office brain drain

Link to MLB Closed Captioning

Link to @UnfortunateMLB

Link to Umpire Scorecards

Link to Would it Dong?

Link to Art But Make it Sports Insta

Link to Art But Make it Sports Twitter

Link to Art But Make it Sports website

Link to Araujo EW episode

Link to SI on LJ

Link to LJ’s Bednar post

Link to LJ’s proposal post

Link to LJ’s Ventura/Ryan post

Link to LJ’s Siri post

Link to LJ’s Muncy post

Link to LJ’s Murphy post

Link to 1989 Past Blast source

Link to 1989 Hadley paper

Link to 1992 Hadley paper

Link to 1993 Hadley paper

Link to 1991 MLB payrolls

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to Ward/Wade wiki

Link to Arcia prediction story

Link to Turner mic’d up

Link to Ben on mic’d up players

Link to McKenna/Duvall video

Link to Stathead on Duvall

Link to Pagliaroni game

Link to errors preceding walkoffs

Link to EW on Shamsky

Link to EW on Shamsky again

Link to Bowie Baysox meetup

Link to Caught Steelin’ band

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