Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the podcast’s naming conventions, the EW reverse jinx boosting Byron Buxton, the stress of observing Jacob deGrom’s high-wire act, Drew Maggi’s first major league hit (off of Hobie Harris!), high-scoring, high-altitude baseball in Mexico City, MLB editing (and later restoring) an A’s highlight, White Sox fan unrest, Jazz Chisholm Jr. being mic’d up on a broadcast while batting, the standouts toward the top of the combined WAR leaderboard one month into the season, and more, then (1:12:00) Stat Blast about the lowest-career-WAR players ever to lead a team in WAR in one season, the most players ever used in one game at each position, and how the pitch clock has made games not only much shorter, but also much less variable in duration, plus (1:41:32) a Past Blast from 2001 and a few follow-ups and closing thoughts (1:43:39).

Audio outro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to deGrom injury info

Link to Ben Clemens on deGrom

Link to Maggi hits video

Link to article on Maggi being optioned

Link to Ben on baseball in Mexico City

Link to Mexico City game stats

Link to Susan’s humidor tweet

Link to Susan’s Mexico City gamer

Link to Susan’s Game 2 gamer

Link to story about A’s fans

Link to tweet about A’s highlight

Link to Ben on in-game interviews

Link to mic’d up Maldonado

Link to White Sox fan rant

Link to James Fegan on Sox fans

Link to James on the Roberts benching

Link to Jay on the White Sox

Link to combined WAR leaderboard

Link to article on Chapman’s defense

Link to FG post on Cole

Link to Cole’s Hicks reaction

Link to Topps NOW cards

Link to Episode 1952 Stat Blast

Link to worst WAR leaders

Link to most players at position links

Link to Ben on the Waxahachie Swap

Link to all-position players

Link to Ben on game times

Link to April 25 games

Link to 1969 time-of-game article

Link to 2001 Past Blast source

Link to contraction plan details

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to Twins HR celebration

Link to Sam on WS dogpiles

Link to Sam on walk-off celebrations

Link to 2019 Nats celebrations

Link to 2019 Nats article

Link to 2023 HR celebrations

Link to White Sox walk-off gamer

Link to Passan division tweets

Link to A’s walk-off gamer

Link to A’s winless SP record

Link to Ohtani homer

Link to Cruz triple

Link to CBA/start times thread

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