Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s prediction concerning the Padres’ and Rangers’ rest-of-season performance with runners in scoring position, then (14:08) answer listener emails about the ultimate Quadruple-A player, leaving runners on base for the opposing team, immaculate-inning edge cases, tanking for Shohei Ohtani, setting up a lifelong Google Alert for a player, the 2020 season’s impact on Hall of Fame cases, and Barry Bonds with an extra-short bat, followed by (1:12:43) Stat Blasts about the frequency of in-game position switches and the most players on a team who had previously played on the same former team, plus (1:40:06) a Past Blast from 2012 and a few follow-ups.

Audio outro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to lowest tOPS+ w/RISP

Link to lowest OPS w/RISP

Link to highest tOPS+ w/RISP

Link to highest OPS w/RISP

Link to OPS w/bases empty

Link to Petriello on the Rangers

Link to Odor HR

Link to preseason predictions pod

Link to latest MiLB FA draft

Link to Gonny Jomes wiki

Link to old EW on immaculate innings

Link to Oviedo’s inning

Link to info on Mavs tanking

Link to article on Wemby tanking

Link to Waddell SABR bio

Link to McLaughlin wiki

Link to McLaughlin feature

Link to Posnanski on DiMaggio

Link to Jay on missed time

Link to Jay on missed time again

Link to Bois on Bonds

Link to listener emails database

Link to Topps Now cards

Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter

Link to positional permutations

Link to position-switch sheet

Link to second Stat Blast doc

Link to 2012 Past Blast source

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to America Magazine article

Link to other Dodgers/SPI links

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Link to Alonso clip

Link to Sabathia periods source

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