Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Pirates calling up top pitching prospect Paul Skenes, Mookie Betts’s shortstop defense, Willson Contreras, the causes of increasingly common catcher’s interference calls, and catcher technique in an ABS world, rampant reliever shuffling, Chase Anderson as a Phiten necklace “endling,” two ways in which amateur prospects are possibly being exploited or disrupted, Ippei Mizuhara’s guilty plea, Shohei Ohtani’s WAR and two-way future, and a momentous mid-plate-appearance pitching change that never was. Then (1:16:53) they talk to The Athletic writer Andy McCullough about his new book, The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness.

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Link to MLBTR on Skenes

Link to SS DRS leaders

Link to BP fielding leaderboard

Link to Petriello on Mookie’s defense

Link to Hankook commercial 1

Link to Hankook commercial 2

Link to Pedroia commercial

Link to Contreras injury video

Link to tweet about Contreras move

Link to The Athletic on Contreras catching

Link to Woodward on Contreras catching

Link to Sam on CI last year

Link to Sam on CI this year

Link to CI totals

Link to old EW on CI 1

Link to old EW on CI 2

Link to Tanner Swanson on EW

Link to Ben on moving the mound

Link to BP on disposable pitchers

Link to Russell on disposable players

Link to Ben on pitcher limits

Link to latest MiLB FA draft

Link to endling wiki

Link to story on Anderson’s Phiten

Link to Sam on Phiten

Link to escaped zebra story

Link to EW on youth baseball expense

Link to The Athletic on Perfect Game

Link to ESPN on draft evasion

Link to MLBTR on Ippei’s plea

Link to combined WAR leaderboard

Link to FG hitter projections

Link to Savant trending players image

Link to Kershaw pen session

Link to The Last of His Kind

Link to book excerpt 1

Link to book excerpt 2

Link to Woodward/Trump story

Link to Sam on Kershaw mistakes

Link to Ben on Kersh in 2013

Link to Ben on Kersh in 2020

Link to Ben on pitcher deception

Link to MLBTR on Hill

Link to Ben’s Hill cover mockup

Link to Kershaw career pitch usage

Link to Ward/Wade wiki

Link to The Atlantic on stadium subsidies

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