Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a Tigers tweet about future first-pitch timing and other non-topical PSAs, provide a Secret Santa sign-up reminder, consider baseball authority figures who answer fan mail, discuss the impact that the changing economic landscape of college sports could have on MLB drafting and development, react to Danny Jansen’s deal with the Rays, and answer a question about defining “division rivals,” then (57:10) bring on Michael Mountain to Stat Blast about his new Wins Above Average-based Hall of Fame metric, BOOG, plus updates.

Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Tigers tweet

Link to Monfort email 1

Link to Monfort email 2

Link to Manfred email

Link to Manfred autograph 1

Link to Manfred autograph 2

Link to Manfred autograph 3

Link to Manfred autograph 4

Link to Selig email quote

Link to Updike quote

Link to NIL Athletic article

Link to MLBTR on Jansen

Link to tweet about Jansen

Link to Tango Bluesky post

Link to Tango blog post

Link to Michael’s Stat Blast cover

Link to HoF pace for hitters

Link to HOF pace for pitchers

Link to tiered HOF by BOOG score

Link to BOOG graphs site

Link to MLBTR on Holmes

Link to MLBTR on Bieber

Link to MLBTR top 50 FA

Link to over/under draft score

Link to ABA article

Link to Manfred backtrack

Link to EW gift subscriptions

Link to Secret Santa sign-up form

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