Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s All-Star Week plans, play “Would you rather?” with the White Sox and Cardinals, the Padres and Mets, Carlos Rodón and Alek Manoah, and the Rangers and Diamondbacks, compare the values of Pablo López and Luis Arraez (26:25), discuss starting pitchers who might be available at the trade deadline (29:33), run down the dilemmas facing a few teams on the border between buying and selling, and use projections (44:06) to identify the positions on contending teams that are most in need of an upgrade. Then (1:05:15) they Stat Blast about the most baserunners allowed while facing the minimum, low-scoring division leaders, the Nationals’ odd home/away split, Chris Vallimont and players traded right after debuting, the all-time leaders in up-and-down seasons, pitchers’ error-prone throwing, whether an official-scoring conspiracy is boosting batting averages, and Shohei Ohtani with and without Mike Trout batting behind him, plus (1:50:21) a Future Blast from 2030 and a few follow-ups.

Audio outro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild theme”

Link to FG playoff odds

Link to combined WAR leaderboard

Link to team SP WAR leaders

Link to team wRC+ leaderboard

Link to BaseRuns standings

Link to article on Carroll’s shoulder

Link to Rosenthal on available SP

Link to Rosenthal on Stroman

Link to positional projections

Link to contenders’ top needs

Link to “facing the minimum” games

Link to Nats split 1

Link to Nats split 2

Link to MLBTR on Vallimont

Link to previous traded players

Link to up-and-down leaders

Link to Kenny Jackelen on Twitter

Link to Ben on the fake to 3rd

Link to Hicks walk-off

Link to Woodpeckers game story

Link to FB thread on game endings

Link to 2005 K-Rod ending

Link to 1995 Dodgers ending

Link to Castillo pop-up play

Link to error-rates-by-position sheet

Link to pitcher-error data

Link to Laurila on errors

Link to yearly fielding per-game rates

Link to yearly hitting per-game rates

Link to error/BIP stats/graphs

Link to Chow test wiki

Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter

Link to Ben on Ohtani after 2021

Link to research on lineup protection

Link to Ohtani with/without Trout

Link to plate discipline with/without

Link to hitters behind Ohtani

Link to Lucas Apostoleris on Twitter

Link to Sean Dolinar on Twitter

Link to listener emails database

Link to Rick Wilber’s website

Link to 1978 Parker article

Link to later 1978 Parker article

Link to Parker’s SABR bio

Link to 2009 Parker article

Link to 2022 Parker post

Link to MLBTR on Pérez

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