Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley talk about not talking about the Cardinals, then banter about Sandy Alcantara’s resurgence, whether Walker Buehler will have his own bounceback for the Phillies, Ha-Seong Kim’s reunion with Jurickson Profar, the concept of “adversarial location,” Aroldis Chapman and Taj Bradley‘s discoveries of inside/outside and scouting reports, respectively, Chapman’s extension, whether Luis Arraez’s strikeout avoidance is still fun, a notable FARTBAT, switch-thrower Carlos Cortes, and Meg’s Mariners anxiety.

Audio outro: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Horny)”

Link to Cardinals odds graph

Link to Cardinals WAR leaders

Link to team attendance changes

Link to preseason team projections

Link to Glaser bobblehead

Link to Alcantara leaderboard

Link to team SP projections

Link to team RP projections

Link to Judge article

Link to Olney video

Link to Olney pitch-type splits

Link to Dan S. on Chapman

Link to Chapman on DV

Link to Bradley article

Link to K%+ leaderboard

Link to Dan S. on Arraez

Link to Sam on Arraez

Link to Goodhart’s Law

Link to FARTBAT episode

Link to Story HR video

Link to Story HR article

Link to Cortes article

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