Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the appeal of deflected balls caught on the fly, the lack of variety in MLB.TV highlights, Aaron Judge’s bases-empty intentional walks, the Braves falling out of playoff position (for now), and the surprising team with a trio of young, above-average, qualified hitters. Then (40:44) they rank the types of baseball versatility and Stat Blast (56:18) about the decline of switch-hitting, Maury Wills and switch-hitter slumps, how often managers are fired following a loss, and whether intra-division trades are getting more common.

Audio outro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Rockies-Mets play

Link to Bogaerts/Kelly play

Link to Stark on Judge

Link to Tango on Judge

Link to Jaffe on the Braves

Link to Ben C. on depth

Link to Ben C. on depth 2

Link to Ben C. on depth on EW

Link to preseason playoff odds

Link to BP IL Ledger

Link to young hitters query

Link to query without minimums

Link to Ben on Twins.com

Link to Twins.com sale news

Link to Venditte rule article

Link to Mike Temple Stat Blast cover

Link to Athletic SH article

Link to Fox Sports SH article

Link to WSJ SH article

Link to LAT SH article

Link to youth sports specialization

Link to switch-hitting data

Link to SH graph 1

Link to SH graph 2

Link to Ben on bad switch-hitters

Link to FG on bad switch-hitters

Link to Mullins article 1

Link to Mullins article 2

Link to Mullins article 3

Link to Victorino article 1

Link to Victorino article 2

Link to Victorino article 3

Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter

Link to Steiner/Wills clip

Link to Wills SH OPS graph

Link to switch-hitter correlations

Link to stat stabilization points

Link to Dr. Dog album

Link to Ferguson SABR bio

Link to Ferguson wiki

Link to “Death to Flying Things”

Link to “Death to Flying Things” 2

Link to SH origin story 1

Link to SH origin story 2

Link to previous SH Stat Blast

Link to 2024 switch-hitters

Link to Twins Daily on SH

Link to Crashfish Boxes on SH

Link to 1985 LAT article on SH

Link to Year of the Balk article

Link to Berkman/Jones SH quotes

Link to MLB Showalter ad

Link to Ben on caliber of play

Link to managerial firings data

Link to manager data by decade

Link to managers fired after Ws

Link to trades data

Link to interleague trades data

Link to interleague trading history

Link to trades graph 1

Link to trades graph 2

Link to Betances injury article

Link to ballpark meetup forms

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