Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the career and competitive implications of Ronald Acuña Jr.’s latest season-ending injury, the retirement of infamous ump Angel Hernandez, the aesthetics of umps issuing warnings, the Brewers’ success sans Craig Counsell and David Stearns, a new unwritten rule against any(?) bunting, White Sox players vs. White Sox skipper Pedro Grifol, Tim Anderson’s offense, Aaron Judge’s defense, and team meetings prior to Patrick Corbin starts. Then (1:02:12) they talk to official MLB historian John Thorn and Negro Leagues researcher Larry Lester about MLB adding Negro Leagues stats to its official major league historical record, pensions for surviving Negro Leagues players, the East-West Classic, and more, plus a few follow-ups (1:43:07).

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Link to FG on Acuña

Link to Dan S. on Atlanta

Link to EW on modeling depth

Link to Acuña injury video

Link to MLB.com on Acuña injury

Link to MLB.com on ATL returns

Link to MLBTR on ATL OF help

Link to The Athletic on Hernandez

Link to USA Today on Hernandez

Link to Athletic Hernandez profile

Link to BP on Hernandez

Link to ump pointing pre-PCA HR

Link to Counsell boos

Link to BP on Counsell homecoming

Link to Lindor chants tweet

Link to Lindor boos tweet

Link to more Lindor

Link to Smith Berry beef

Link to bunting Stat Blast

Link to Sam on unwritten rules

Link to FG on the Guardians

Link to BaseRuns standings

Link to Grifol story

Link to Anderson errors video

Link to Anderson errors story

Link to BP on Judge

Link to Judge barrels

Link to Judge’s 20 games

Link to Janes tweet

Link to 2023 meeting story

Link to Sam on Corbin

Link to MLBTR on Robles

Link to MLB news story

Link to Negro Leagues hub

Link to hitting leaderboards

Link to pitching leaderboards

Link to John’s website

Link to Larry’s website

Link to AP on stat integration

Link to Seamheads database

Link to Retrosheet data

Link to Athletic stats story

Link to MLB.com stats story

Link to pensions story

Link to East-West story

Link to MLB at Rickwood Field

Link to Ben’s 2020 report 1

Link to Ben’s 2020 report 2

Link to shift violation

Link to shift violation rule

Link to Cueto Windbigler video

Link to Cueto Windbigler story

Link to Moon Hound on Bandcamp

Link to ballpark meetup forms

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