Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about John Brebbia’s return to the big leagues, Kyle Schwarber’s four-homer game, the potential for a position-player-pitcher-assisted five-homer game, Heliot Ramos and dingers on extremely slow pitches, an interminable inning, whether the playoff race is over and, if so, whether that’s an indictment of the 12-team format, and the profusion of recently promoted pitchers potentially in line for postseason starts, then (55:50) answer listener emails about season-ending injuries, accounting for player intention in WAR, “rounding home,” giving pitchers tall shoes, making baseball less random, the worst on-field feeling, pitcher aesthetics, and mid-PA pitching changes, plus (1:36:34) follow-ups.

Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to MLBTR on Brebbia

Link to The Onion headline

Link to four-homer-games query

Link to Schwarber’s dingers

Link to article on Suárez game

Link to Ramos homer

Link to slowest HR pitches

Link to Rob Arthur on exit speed

Link to pitch-count tweet

Link to Nats-Yanks game

Link to pitch-count query

Link to Keyser on the playoff race

Link to Sheehan on the playoff race

Link to Baumann on the playoff race

Link to Andrews on the playoff race

Link to the AP on strikeouts

Link to McLean info

Link to Tong info

Link to Tolle info

Link to Baumann on Rodriguez

Link to Marucci email

Link to Seinfeld clip

Link to possessions info

Link to Ben on mid-PA pitching changes

Link to listener emails database

Link to Rounding Home book

Link to Rounding for Home book

Link to Rounding Home movie

Link to “Rounding Home” headline

Link to Berkson’s paradox

Link to Berkson and baseball

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