Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani’s latest exploits and career-best WAR pace, the Angels’ playoff hopes, Corbin Carroll’s physique, and Mickey Moniak’s fluky-but-fun hot streak, then (20:55) answer listener emails about how big a scandal it would be if Ohtani turned out to be two twins, when managers would choose to take in-game mulligans, and which stat should replace errors in the traditional line score, followed by a Meet a Major Leaguer segment (54:00) featuring Keaton Winn and Ricky Karcher (as well as Joe Jacques and Stan Musial), Stat Blasts (1:18:45) about Zack Greinke and the widest pitch-speed spreads and Jo Adell and the players with the biggest career gaps between their Triple-A and MLB production, plus a Past Blast (1:39:30) from 2021.

Audio outro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Ohtani’s oppo homers

Link to Ohtani oppo graphic

Link to Ohtani’s Statcast record

Link to story on Ohtani’s series

Link to Ohtani’s HR lead

Link to Blum’s bat tweet

Link to Ohtani’s streak

Link to Neil Paine on Ohtani

Link to Ohtani sweepers by start

Link to Ohtani sweepers vs. LHB

Link to FG playoff odds

Link to Angels wRC+ leaders

Link to The Athletic on Moniak

Link to minor league chase leaders

Link to MLB swing-rate leaders

Link to article on Carroll

Link to Dan Bern’s Ohtani song

Link to Canseco conspiracy

Link to Atlantic League EW episode

Link to Craig/Báez play

Link to Minor’s 200th strikeout story

Link to other Ben on line scores

Link to modern box score story

Link to EW emails database

Link to list of saves in debuts

Link to MLB.com on Winn’s debut

Link to McCovey Chronicles on Winn

Link to story on Giants bullpen WAR

Link to toothpaste/Sriracha tweet

Link to Karcher interview

Link to Karcher pitch plot

Link to Karcher article 1

Link to Karcher article 2

Link to Karcher article 3

Link to Karcher article 4

Link to Jacques call-up article 1

Link to Jacques call-up article 2

Link to Jacques debut play

Link to Jacques interview

Link to Jacques other interview

Link to Musial/Jacques query

Link to Musial story

Link to 2023 new debuts

Link to Topps Now cards

Link to pitch-speed-spread leaders

Link to new Greinke stories article

Link to EW episode on Greinke stories

Link to active-pitcher spreads

Link to Simon pitch spreads

Link to Padilla pitch spreads

Link to consecutive-pitches Stat Blast

Link to Lucas Apostoleris on Twitter

Link to Triple-A/MLB gaps spreadsheet

Link to Triple-A/MLB hypothetical email

Link to intra-season AAA/MLB gap Blast

Link to Ben on the majors/minors gap

Link to Kenny Jackelen on Twitter

Link to Home Run Challenge press release

Link to Home Run Challenge leaderboard

Link to donate to Home Run Challenge

Link to 2021 Past Blast source

Link to Ben on moving the mound

Link to Ben/Rob on the results

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

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