Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs authors Michael Baumann and Ben Clemens play “Character Who Appears in Shōgun the Novel (but Not the TV Series) or International Amateur Baseball Player” (3:13), banter about an MLBPA power struggle (8:37) and the life of late Orioles owner Peter Angelos (16:51), and then explain the second annual preseason predictions game (22:38) and make 10 bold predictions apiece (29:00) about baseball in 2024, to be voted on by listeners.

Audio outro: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Horny)”

LINK TO VOTE ON PREDICTIONS

Link to Sasaki article

Link to Jarvis singing video

Link to Passan on the MLBPA

Link to Drellich on Flaherty

Link to latest on the MLBPA

Link to Drellich on McHugh

Link to Meyer letter

Link to MLBTR on Angelos

Link to Angelos wiki

Link to Rubenstein story

Link to last year’s predictions pod

Link to predictions recap pod

Link to last year’s results

Link to wiki on last year

Link to combined WAR leaderboard

Link to Ben on 2022 Pujols

Link to jacked players list

Link to slim Stanton video

Link to FG top 100

Link to 2024 oldest players

Link to 40+ PA by year

Link to batter age by year

Link to multi-year RoY vote-getters

Link to tiebreaker rules

Link to FG playoff odds

Link to Bananas cruise

Link to total SB by year

Link to Sam on SB

Link to Russell on pickoffs

Link to obstruction enforcement

Link to enforcement explainer

Link to obstruction call video

Link to Lindor play piece 1

Link to Lindor play piece 2

Link to MiLB FA draft projections

Link to Thames GIF

Link to Ben on Shohei

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

LINK TO VOTE ON PREDICTIONS

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