Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Derek Jeter‘s (and Aaron Judge’s) championship-or-bust rhetoric, Alex Rodriguez’s date night, Judge’s home-run robberies, Judge’s offensive prowess compared to Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds, how clutchness (or the lack thereof) could affect the AL MVP race, Juan Soto’s defense, how the trajectory of Seattle’s season may have sealed Scott Servais’s fate, the Royals’ valuable durability, Michael Kopech as a Dodger, Dallas Keuchel’s latest destination, the new, old Jacob deGrom, and Jordan Montgomery’s and Blake Snell’s contrasting takes on Scott Boras. Then (1:14:39) they bring back Sports Reference software developer (and primary developer of Baseball-Reference.com) Kenny Jackelen to describe the work that went into ensuring that Danny Jansen’s unique two-teams-in-one-game performance didn’t break B-Ref.

Audio interstitial: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Jeter quote

Link to 2019 Judge quote

Link to 2023 Judge quote

Link to 2023 Judge quote 2

Link to story on 2009 reunion

Link to duck tour incidents

Link to A-Rod date night 1

Link to A-Rod date night 2

Link to Babe Ruth Award wiki

Link to FG batting paces

Link to FG WAR leaderboard

Link to single-season wRC+ leaders

Link to single-season batting leaders

Link to hitting leaders since 5/1

Link to SIS Judge stat

Link to Judge robbery article

Link to “locked in” quote

Link to “locked in” quote 2

Link to Judge’s splits

Link to Tango on Judge’s clutchness

Link to FG Clutch leaderboard

Link to batting WPA leaders

Link to pitching WPA leaders

Link to batting cWPA leaders

Link to pitching cWPA leaders

Link to spring Soto play

Link to EW on Soto’s play

Link to Bradley/Soto article

Link to Soto’s defensive history

Link to Ben on Harper’s defense

Link to Selig Rule article

Link to Wilson wiki

Link to Sheehan on the Royals

Link to BP IL Ledger

Link to 2024 team batting age

Link to Jaffe on Kopech

Link to Sox Machine on Kopech

Link to Keuchel signing article

Link to Carmen Sandiego theme song

Link to deGrom rehab article 1

Link to deGrom rehab article 2

Link to deGrom rehab article 3

Link to Montgomery comments

Link to Snell comments

Link to MLBTR on Montgomery/Snell

Link to MLBTR on Montgomery’s agent

Link to Jaffe on the Boras Four

Link to @mattomic tweet

Link to Kenny’s first EW appearance

Link to Cora on Jansen

Link to B-Ref game page

Link to Jansen game log

Link to Forman tweet

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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