Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the “effectively wild” debut of Paul Skenes and the Pirates’ bases-loaded walkathon, an in-development TV series about Ippei Mizuhara, the demotion of Craig Kimbrel and possible trade dangling of Mason Miller, the continued success of Davis Schneider, the impact of replay review on the increase in catcher’s interference calls, and whether teams should go back to rearranging their rotations based on opponent quality, then (39:14) bring on Mike Petriello of MLB.com to explain and discuss the present and future of MLB’s new Statcast-based bat-tracking metrics, plus (1:27:51) a few follow-ups.

Audio interstitial: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Audio outro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Grandal interview

Link to Skenes gamer

Link to Skenes game box score

Link to 1959 game box score

Link to Ippei show story

Link to Uncut Gems wiki

Link to Kimbrel story 1

Link to Kimbrel story 2

Link to Sheehan on Kimbrel

Link to Rosenthal on Miller

Link to Schneider Reddit post

Link to Schneider article

Link to SIS on CI calls

Link to Craig Wright on SP opponents

Link to EW Episode 812

Link to Darius Austin on SP opponents

Link to Matt Berry saying “bat”

Link to Mike on EW in 2022

Link to Mike on new metrics

Link to bat-tracking leaderboard

Link to fastest bats

Link to team leaders

Link to Contreras story

Link to Yankees slugger stats

Link to Ohtani bat stats

Link to Passan on bat stats

Link to Eno on bat stats

Link to Matan on bat stats

Link to Ben C. on bat stats

Link to Ben C. on bat stats 2

Link to Ben on second-guessing

Link to Tango on switch-hitters

Link to Tango on predictiveness

Link to Paine on bat stats

Link to Woodward on bat stats

Link to Russell on shortening up

Link to Dril tweet

Link to KK play story

Link to EW on the KK play

Link to new fake-out catch

Link to Ryan Nelson tweet 1

Link to Ryan Nelson tweet 2

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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