Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley bring on top-tier Patreon supporter Becca Balton to banter about Becca’s baseball background, her origins as a listener, and the Nationals’ new direction, then (17:51) answer emails about a team WAR cap, an extra-innings variant in which the team to score fastest wins, manager close-ups on postseason broadcasts, citing the stats of a particular pitch, a pitch-based skills competition, and the “corners” of the strike zone, followed (1:09:33) by Stat Blasts about postseason series MVPs with negative (c)WPAs, pitchers who earned their first save in their final appearance, the oldest/most-experienced pitchers to push their career records over .500 for the first time, and teams that swept the major awards in the shortest spans, plus a postscript on the Dylan Cease signing and more.

Audio outro: Austin Klewan, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Yesavage splitter stats

Link to Babe Ruth Award wiki

Link to Kershaw/Stafford backstory

Link to xkcd “Ten Thousand” comic

Link to Stafford stat

Link to Stafford’s season

Link to QB wins leaders

Link to Nightengale column

Link to BP on MLB’s “losses”

Link to MaML on Karcher

Link to listener emails database

Link to Jesser’s YouTube channel

Link to Rendon report

Link to MLBTR on Cease

Link to Baumann on Cease

Link to Secret Santa sign-up

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