Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the end of the NLCS, discuss the discourse surrounding the improbability of and fallout from the Diamondbacks-Rangers World Series matchup, banter about the Brewers always losing in the playoffs to eventual pennant winners, preview the World Series, postulate a conspiracy surrounding this postseason’s lack of extra-inning games, and react to the Red Sox hiring ex-pitcher Craig Breslow as their new Chief Baseball Officer/POBO, then (54:14) Stat Blast about how the World Series and future postseasons might be swayed by a reliever familiarity effect that could counter the pitcher-usage changes caused by the times-through-the-order penalty and restore longer starts, including a chat (1:12:06) with reliever-familiarity-effect researcher Dr. David J. Gordon.

Audio outro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Baumann on NLCS G7

Link to Ben C.’s Series preview

Link to Ginny Searle’s Series preview

Link to Neil Paine’s Series preview

Link to MLB.com on Ginkel

Link to Jay Jaffe on Scherzer

Link to Leo Morgenstern on Semien

Link to tweet about Brewers losses

Link to MLBTR on Breslow

Link to 2017 Breslow article

Link to info on Eovaldi game

Link to Topps Now

Link to Cameron Grove EW episode

Link to Cameron Grove tweet

Link to Cameron Grove study

Link to David Gordon study

Link to Ben’s SP study

Link to Ben on reliever familiarity

Link to D-backs headlines wiki

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