Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the firing of Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom and the extension of Nationals president of baseball operations Mike Rizzo, injuries to Max Scherzer and Sandy Alcantara and MLB’s UCL scourge, and a proposed tier system for the Hall of Fame and single-season awards, then Stat Blast (1:08:33) about Zack Greinke’s win-loss record, Matt Olson and players with more homers than their team has losses, the most team innings with a homer to start a game, two players 40 or older homering in the same game, walk-off balks, high-WAR seasons for multiple teams, and Ian Happ and the longest on-base streaks against a team, plus a Future Blast (1:38:32) from 2059 and a follow-up.

Audio outro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Sox press release

Link to MLBTR on Bloom

Link to Alex Speier on Bloom

Link to Speier on Boston’s ’22 deadline

Link to story on Bloom and Dermody

Link to FG farm rankings

Link to FG payroll rankings

Link to MLBTR on Rizzo

Link to CBS Sports on Rizzo

Link to Rizzo on Strasburg

Link to Lerner’s Stras statement

Link to MASN agreement

Link to DiPuglia resignation story

Link to scout firings story

Link to Alcantara UCL story

Link to story on velo and UCLs

Link to Sam on UCLs

Link to Ben on pitcher limits

Link to Bill James answer

Link to Posnanski on James

Link to Topps Now

Link to Greinke W-L spreadsheet

Link to Paine on Greinke

Link to Jaffe/Laurila on Greinke

Link to starter run support

Link to EW 1855 Stat Blast

Link to Olson club sheet

Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter

Link to team innings w/HR doc

Link to Ryan on 40+ HR hitters

Link to walk-off-balks sheet

Link to story on second WO balk

Link to Stat Blast on balks

Link to high-WAR multi-team seasons

Link to Drake EW interview

Link to story on Happ’s streak

Link to tweet about Happ’s streak

Link to info on DiMaggio scoring

Link to Sam on on-base streaks

Link to on-base-streak sheet

Link to on-base-in-starts streaks

Link to Rick Wilber’s website

Link to Future Blast wiki

Link to Edman article

Link to switch-SH sheet

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