Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a recent uptick in base stealing and why Mike Trout’s loyalty to the Angels is criticized more than it’s celebrated. Then (16:39) they’re joined by Patreon supporter Alex Levy to discuss Alex’s background as a podcast listener, baseball fan, and mail carrier and answer emails (43:49) about a Mario approach to chemistry in baseball, back-to-back homers, providing players with a destructible piece of equipment, probabilistic robo umps, umps as neutral (but not infallible) arbiters, and the correct pronunciation of “summer sausage.”

Audio outro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Woodward on SBs

Link to Jaffe on home runs

Link to first SB conversation

Link to Ben’s preseason predictions

Link to Rosenthal on Trout

Link to Calcaterra on Trout

Link to February EW on Trout

Link to MLBTR on Buxton

Link to Mario baseball game 1

Link to Mario baseball game 2

Link to “back-to-back” definition

Link to Mackenzie tweets

Link to Zimmer’s website

Link to Zimmer’s WSJ column

Link to compound stress rule

Link to Youglish clips

Link to compound stress PDF 1

Link to compound stress PDF 2

Link to Simpsons clip

Link to listener emails database

Link to Thistl

Link to MLBTR on Arraez

Link to MLBTR on Ruiz

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