Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley recap news and transactions from over the holidays, including Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s thoughts on San Francisco and Yu Darvish’s thoughts on the Dodgers signing his WBC teammates, the Mariners signing Mitch Garver, the Reds signing Frankie Montas, a smattering of Blue Jays and White Sox signings, the Estevan Florial trade, and the retirement of Andrelton Simmons. Then (49:19) they discuss the Lucas Giolito signing and the Chris Sale trade before segueing into a Stat Blast (1:07:05) about the evolution of starting-pitcher workloads, volume vs. efficiency, and what an “innings eater” is in 2024.

Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to EW Episode 2102

Link to Yamamoto comment

Link to story about sad Darvish

Link to Garver FG post

Link to Krall comment

Link to offseason spending leaders

Link to Jays signings FG post

Link to Florial FG post

Link to Simmons Stathead query

Link to Simmons highlights video

Link to DRS leaders

Link to Sale FG post

Link to Sale BP post

Link to Baumann on Braves trades

Link to Nightengale tweet

Link to FG SP depth charts

Link to Cora on Sale

Link to Sox spending report

Link to Ben on Sale in 2018

Link to 2023 IP leaders

Link to Passan Civale tweet

Link to Dan S. tweet

Link to Trueblood on volume

Link to Tango on quantity/quality

Link to Mains on pitching/payrolls

Link to Jennings on innings eaters

Link to Ben’s Stat Blast exhibits

Link to Ben on pitcher roster limits

Link to Sale 2022 meltdown

Link to punching bag video

Link to Sale scissors incident

Link to 1996 Park story

Link to EW Episode 2104

Link to Stat Blast song cover

Link to all Stat Blast covers

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