Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a new escalation in “breakout” creep, the Blue Jays signing Jeff Hoffman, risk tolerance in transactions, alternate spellings of names, Roki Sasaki’s effect on the market for international amateur free agents, another example of a team offering a higher salary in arbitration than a player requested, Mets owner Steve Cohen’s financial returns, Nick Castellanos on MVP Jose Iglesias, and a 19th-century curved-bat idea (1:08:44), plus (1:22:40) a Stat Blast on the players who’ve appeared in the most distinct team matchups.

Audio outro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to breakouts post

Link to Jeff on HoF artifacts

Link to Clemens on Hoffman

Link to MLBTR on Hoffman

Link to Hoffman press release

Link to Madisynn clip

Link to MLBTR on Sasaki

Link to article on Sasaki effects

Link to Flanagan arb post

Link to WSJ on Cohen

Link to Castellanos clip

Link to banana bat article 1

Link to banana bat article 2

Link to banana bat article 3

Link to banana bat article 4

Link to banana bat article 5

Link to Alan Nathan physics site

Link to bat boning wiki

Link to Stat Blast sheet 1

Link to Stat Blast sheet 2

Link to Ben on Stairs

Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter

Link to MiLB draft data

Link to EW gift subscriptions

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