Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Yusei Kikuchi’s (and other players’) sleep habits and the possibility of a three-way AL West tie with no tiebreaker game, then (28:28) answer listener emails about surprising team assignments in Baseball-Reference headshots, a player who replicates the talent of the player who started in the same lineup spot the previous game, making mound visits to the opposing pitcher, a GM who can predict UCL tears and call up a replacement for the pitcher who’s going to get hurt, whether prospect-promotion incentives could delay the call-ups of the top two prospects in baseball, and retirement-tour qualifications, plus Stat Blasts (1:16:53) about on-base streaks to start a career, all-sweep season series, the best leaguewide power-speed seasons, pitchers who make switch-hitters sacrifice the platoon advantage, and José Abreu and the biggest year-to-year offensive changes.

Audio outro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to first McGrath thread

Link to second McGrath thread

Link to Apstein article

Link to info on Ohtani’s sleep

Link to more on Ohtani’s sleep

Link to even more on Ohtani’s sleep

Link to Nootbaar on Ohtani’s sleep

Link to article on Trout’s sleep

Link to article on Verlander’s sleep

Link to article on Cruz’s naps

Link to article on Smith’s naps

Link to article on Casas’s naps

Link to Russell on sleep hygiene

Link to article on nap rooms

Link to article on Phillies’ sleep

Link to article on Federer’s sleep

Link to article on LeBron’s sleep

Link to Sheehan on tiebreakers

Link to Anderson’s B-Ref page

Link to Valverde’s B-Ref page

Link to tweet about Valverde

Link to Andino headshots

Link to study on icing the kicker

Link to article on Cabrera’s tour

Link to more on Cabrera’s tour

Link to article about A’s Miggy gift

Link to article on Yadi/Pujols

Link to Rolling Stone on Jeter

Link to more on Jeter and tours

Link to listener emails database

Link to Topps Now

Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter

Link to on-base-streaks sheet

Link to Langs tweet

Link to season-sweeps sheet

Link to power-speed sheet

Link to power-speed wiki

Link to article on Edman

Link to wrong-side sheet

Link to detailed wrong-side sheet

Link to Tango on pitch-type splits

Link to year-to-year wRC+ sheet

Link to Burger helmet video

Link to ESPN’s A’s article

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