Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s memories of Ichiro and his sensational MLB debut, Ippei Mizuhara’s letter about his work with Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki’s dog, the misleading name of “Sluggball,” Jurickson Profar and the prospect of a Braves rebound, which players will get “shorter” thanks to the challenge system, two new rules changes, how the Dodgers will make innings meet, how to make 3B coaches more aggressive, “Tragedeigh,” and more.

Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Ichiro’s first MLB hit

Link to Ben on Ichiro’s homers

Link to Ippei’s letter

Link to Ippei recording

Link to Roki’s dog

Link to dog tweet

Link to Dekopin meeting

Link to Slugball website

Link to Slugball article 1

Link to Slugball article 2

Link to Slugball article 3

Link to Sluggball video

Link to Petriello on Profar

Link to team WAR projections

Link to Rosenthal on Boras/Braves

Link to ABS measuring info

Link to Eric on heights

Link to George’s Timberlands

Link to Drellich on rule changes

Link to MLBTR on rule changes

Link to EW Episode 1863

Link to article on baserunning play

Link to EW Episode 2169

Link to Dodgers depth chart

Link to Sheehan on the Dodgers

Link to listener emails database

Link to running strategy study

Link to Russell on 3B coaches

Link to Ben on goalie goals

Link to tragedeigh wiktionary

Link to tragedeigh subreddit

Link to EW gift subscriptions

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