Deaths don’t actually come in threes—unfortunately, there are many more than that—but Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley begin by marking the passings of a trio of notable figures: David Lynch, Bob Uecker, and Tommy Brown. Then (35:27) they talk about the maybe-momentous signing of a Japanese player not named Roki Sasaki (Shotaro Morii), follow up on previous conversations about “breakout” creep, answer a couple of questions about breakouts, and then respond to listener emails on other topics, including nicknames for pitches, the evolving meaning of “moneyball,” phasing out Hall of Famers, and a modification to the infield fly rule.

Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Lynch NYT obit

Link to Uecker NYT obit

Link to Uecker acting roles

Link to Brown NYT obit

Link to Brown AP obit

Link to Brown SABR bio

Link to Brown text interview

Link to Brown audio interview

Link to MLBTR on Brown

Link to 1940s clippings on Brown

Link to Ben’s Brown Twitter thread

Link to The Athletic on Morii

Link to Silver on breakouts

Link to skeuomorph wiki

Link to Detroiters on Netflix

Link to Ben on Detroiters

Link to Baker on LinkedIn

Link to infield fly play

Link to Strike Four

Link to listener emails database

Link to grumkins wiki

Link to EW gift subscriptions

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