Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether Ben should apply for a full-time job covering Shohei Ohtani, MLB seeking a pitch-clock sponsor, the brilliance of Sandy Alcantara, clock violations leading to ejections, post-Opening Day call-ups for top prospects (most notably Grayson Rodriguez), Alcantara compared to Jacob deGrom, the feud between Tyler O’Neill and Oli Marmol, whether teams in last place will stay there, early playoff odds changes, neither overreacting nor underreacting to early-season stats, and more, plus a Past Blast (1:18:31) from 1990.

Audio outro: SAVAK, “Reaction”

Link to Ohtani job listing

Link to clock-sponsor story

Link to Ben on pitch-clock history

Link to Ben on Alcantara

Link to Machado ejection

Link to Anderson ejection

Link to Ohtani violations

Link to Ohtani and Hoberg

Link to Elias on Rodriguez

Link to Rodriguez debut video

Link to story on O’Neill and Marmol

Link to tweet about Bader/Marmol

Link to Ben C. on Ohtani’s stuff

Link to playoff odds changes

Link to Joe Sheehan on stats so far

Link to quotes about ball

Link to study on spring training stats

Link to Rob Arthur on batted balls

Link to James on signature significance

Link to “whelmed” quote

Link to 1990 Past Blast source

Link to 1989 Hadley paper

Link to Sale scissors story

Link to Turn Ahead the Clock

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to drag dashboard

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