Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Ha-Seong Kim, Adrian Houser, and Foster Griffin signings, a prospect-for-prospect Red Sox and Nationals trade, and the Twins’ partial sale, then (34:00) answer emails about saying “pitchoff” instead of “first pitch,” the value of a cool nickname, a Hall of Fame reference in The Wizard of Oz, whether teams value batter performance against elite pitching, protesting ball/strike calls from the dugout, keeping Pete Rose out of the Hall, a running start for pitchers, and moving the catcher back instead of the mound.

Audio outro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to FG post on Kim

Link to Anthopoulos comments on Kim

Link to MLBTR on Houser

Link to MLBTR on Griffin

Link to FG post on pitching prospects trade

Link to Twins sale story

Link to $/WAR analysis

Link to $/WAR analysis 2

Link to ceremonial first puck wiki

Link to “baseball exceptionalism” series

Link to Sam’s hockey quote

Link to Raleigh “Beef Boys” story

Link to Sam on Trout in 2012

Link to The Wizard of Oz song

Link to halls of fame wiki

Link to Hall of Fame for Great Americans

Link to Schwarber’s postseason stats

Link to pitcher quality adjustment post

Link to Capps hop post

Link to Ben on moving the mound

Link to listener emails database

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