Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Pete Alonso‘s, um, emergency swing, the activations (6:25) of four players (Liam Hendriks, Michael Soroka, Paul Blackburn, and Royce Lewis), the small leads in most divisions (12:03) and the leveling out of the league (A’s aside), José Abreu‘s first homer “trot” of the season, and an umpire comment caught on a hot mic. Then (40:15) they answer a listener email about the ball’s liveliness and follow up on a few other email answers, bring on Rob Mains (57:35) of Baseball Prospectus to Stat Blast about the zombie runner’s impact on home field advantage and discuss the origins of the DL’s rechristening to “injured list” (1:18:45), and follow a Past Blast from 2013 (1:27:27) with banter about Andrew McCutchen’s request for a new rule, plus a postscript (1:37:58).

Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Alonso clip

Link to Meg on Bradley

Link to Meg on Lind

Link to EW on Hernández

Link to Passan on Hendriks

Link to MLBTR on McCullers

Link to Rob Mains on 2022 inequality

Link to Rob Arthur on 2022 balance

Link to story on the Reds

Link to EW Wiki on the Reds

Link to FG playoff odds

Link to preseason predictions pod

Link to Abreu’s “trot”

Link to ump video

Link to ump post

Link to Marte’s homer

Link to HR/Contact graph

Link to ball-drag dashboard

Link to last email show

Link to Lemon on “prime”

Link to listener emails database

Link to Topps Now cards

Link to Rob on HFA

Link to HFA across sports

Link to HFA research

Link to more HFA research

Link to Ben on HFA

Link to Rob on the DL/IL

Link to 2013 Past Blast source

Link to another 2013 source

Link to Grant on catcher collisions

Link to EW Stanky Draft

Link to McCutchen article

Link to positional aging curves

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to 2016 sliding changes

Link to Hendriks gamer

Link to Soroka gamer

Link to Lewis gamer

Link to EW on TV exit speeds

Link to Fatsis on Wambsgans(s)

Link to Sam on Succession

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