Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the White Sox walking Juan Soto to face Aaron Judge, how Judge’s season could’ve been even better, the world’s untapped baseball talent, Shohei Ohtani’s run at a 50-50 season, ways to discourage intentional walks, a proposal to mandate six-inning outings for starting pitchers, a changing of the guard atop the FanGraphs farm system rankings, the extraordinary defense of Austin Hedges, and the nature vs. nurture debate about MLB fathers and sons. Then (1:10:07) they meet major leaguers Daniel Robert, Yilber Diaz, and Michael Petersen, plus (1:34:35) several postscript updates.

Audio outro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Judge/Soto article 1

Link to Judge/Soto article 2

Link to Judge/Soto article 3

Link to Davy Andrews on the IBB

Link to Judge mechanical changes

Link to Ben/Sam on global talent

Link to Ohtani splits by month

Link to Ohtani pitching progress

Link to listener emails database

Link to six-inning-starts article

Link to tweet about six-inning starts

Link to would-be-disqualified starts

Link to Ben on bullpenning

Link to Ben on pitcher roster limits

Link to FG farm rankings

Link to Pipeline farm rankings

Link to Baez homer

Link to Trueblood on Hedges

Link to Hedges BP player card

Link to BP catcher defense leaderboard

Link to “framing chances” definition

Link to Hedges PitchCom article

Link to Ben on Hedges in 2015

Link to BP C defense since 2015

Link to Molina framing montage

Link to Yadi running-game graph

Link to Ben on framing improvements

Link to fathers/sons data

Link to LaRoche retrospective

Link to B-Ref new debuts

Link to Kenny Jackelen’s Twitter

Link to Robert article 1

Link to Robert article 2

Link to Diaz article 1

Link to Diaz article 2

Link to Diaz strawberries photo

Link to Petersen article 1

Link to Petersen article 2

Link to Petersen debut game log

Link to Petersen interview clip

Link to Petersen UK tweet

Link to MLBTR on Hill

Link to EW 1780 Stat Blast

Link to Hill on EW

Link to Hill/Anthony tweet

Link to Fitzgerald play

Link to Fitzgerald/Bonds stat

Link to Fitzgerald article 1

Link to Fitzgerald article 2

Link to Fitzgerald plays data

Link to RE charts

Link to Melvin clip

Link to Ben C. on the play

Link to Ben C. on bunt math

Link to Rob Mains on zombie bunts

Link to Rob on bunts again

Link to The Sandlot audio clip

Link to The Sandlot video clip

Link to Space Jam clip

Link to The Benchwarmers video clip

Link to 1955 newspaper clip

Link to Torgeson vs. Spahn

Link to Wade/Ward wiki

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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