Ben Lindbergh addresses an interview upgrade on the preceding episode, chats with FanGraphs’ Dan Szymborski about Luis Arraez’s chances of batting .400, Stat Blasts (22:36) about extremes in team winning and losing streaks, welcomes in David Lewis (28:00) for the final Past Blast, and talks to prolific science fiction (and baseball science fiction) author Rick Wilber (44:48) about being the son of big leaguer Del Wilber, his career and love for baseball and sci-fi, and the podcast’s forthcoming Future Blast series, plus a postscript (1:26:00) about Tyler Wells and Taylor Walls, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, Rob Manfred and public ballpark funding, contentious plays at the plate, and a new walk-up-music database.

Audio outro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Carleton interview episode

Link to MLB.com on Arraez

Link to Dan on Arraez

Link to Statcast park factors

Link to Foolish thread on AVG+

Link to AVG+ leaderboard

Link to story about Reds’ latest win

Link to Reds streak fun fact

Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter

Link to longest in-season-streaks sheet

Link to more streaks data

Link to Past Blast EW wiki page

Link to 2023 Past Blast source

Link to Ben on the pitch clock

Link to Ben on the pitch clock again

Link to B-Ref’s new rules page

Link to Rickwood Field story

Link to Hinchliffe Stadium story

Link to first Dick Trueman episode

Link to second Dick Trueman episode

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to Rick Wilber’s website

Link to Wilber’s baseball works

Link to My Father’s Game

Link to Del Wilber’s SABR bio

Link to Lucky Starr wiki

Link to Wade/Ward wiki

Link to Trout/Betts interview

Link to Trout/Ohtani at-bat

Link to Bochy ejection video

Link to Melvin ejection video

Link to the NYT on plate-blocking

Link to Heim’s replay-review gesture

Link to Manfred’s Time interview

Link to scholars survey on funding

Link to story on the Astros comment

Link to trade trees site

Link to trade values site

Link to thread on walk-up-songs site

Link to MLB walk-up-songs site

Link to The Walk-Up Database

Link to walk-up-site requests thread

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