Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s positional power rankings progress and discuss why MLB is “evaluating” its Diversity Pipeline Program, then for the first time in a while answer listener emails (15:35) about how baseball would be different if swinging hard caused more serious injuries, a high-elevation league/division, inter-game penalties for frivolous end-of-game challenges, whether the challenge system will make umpires tone down their punchout calls, whether player-initiated challenges should be included in WAR calculations, split-squad games in the regular season, and limits on the number of NPB players per MLB roster, plus a real-time reaction (1:14:03) to the Chesapeake Oyster Catchers logo.

Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Meg’s PPR intro

Link to Athletic report

Link to Calcaterra report

Link to travel ban news

Link to 2019 Cuba deal news

Link to Russell on power hitting

Link to Ben on Mexico City

Link to Oyster Catchers logo

Link to logo response story

Link to Pickles mascot story

Link to GJ Chubs episode

Link to EW emails database

Link to predictions vote

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