Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Tarik Skubal dialing down his top-end fastball (and dominating nonetheless), Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s self-described 70 percent effort level, Ronald Acuña Jr. hitting more and running less, whether the Blue Jays are getting what they wanted out of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the debut of Jacob Misiorowski, Aaron Civale’s trade request (and trade), whether it matters that the baseball is flying less far, and a correction about Barrys, plus listener emails (1:13:20) about guaranteed WAR in the amateur draft, whether Mike Trout will wind up being the best Mike, and what makes a play (or a player) impressive.

Audio outro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to WhatIfSports offer page

Link to Skubal’s fastest pitch

Link to Skubal top speeds

Link to Skubal stats

Link to info on Misiorowski’s debut

Link to The Miz wiki

Link to marks vs. smarks

Link to Clemens on Acuña

Link to Acuña SB droughts

Link to Acuña sprint speeds

Link to best hitters

Link to Jazz quotes

Link to Ben and Jeff on percentages

Link to pulldowns explainer

Link to full-season best hitters

Link to best hitters since 4/9

Link to pulled-air-ball rates

Link to Vlad’s rates

Link to The Athletic on the baseball

Link to Savant drag page

Link to Civale trade request

Link to more on the request

Link to MLBTR on the trade

Link to team SP WAR

Link to team SP projections

Link to league wOBA/xwOBA

Link to first overall picks

Link to more on no. 1 picks

Link to no. 1 pick WAR

Link to more on no. 1 pick WAR

Link to loss aversion wiki

Link to B-Ref’s Skenes post

Link to RoS ZiPS projections

Link to 2026 ZiPS projections

Link to 2027 ZiPS projections

Link to Schmidt leaderboard

Link to Barrys game

Link to Muñoz cat photo

Link to Muñoz cat story

Link to Pillar catch

Link to listener emails database

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