Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about how the on-ramp for learning about sports analytics has changed since they were students, follow up on players who unretired after becoming coaches, break down the Edward Cabrera trade (and the Michael Lorenzen signing), and then discuss the remaining top-10 free agents (Kyle Tucker, Alex Bregman, Framber Valdez, Cody Bellinger, Bo Bichette, and Ranger Suárez) from three perspectives: where they’d have the biggest impact, where would be most fun for them to sign, and where they will sign.

Audio outro: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Rice job listing

Link to Andres class article 1

Link to Andres class article 2

Link to Sabermetrics 101 MOOC

Link to Mota article

Link to Quirk bio

Link to Chambliss bio

Link to “Conformity Gate”

Link to Ben on Mass Effect 3

Link to Baumann on Cabrera

Link to Cabrera pitch values

Link to worst fastballs

Link to Andrews on Lorenzen

Link to FG top 50 FA

Link to Petriello on Tucker

Link to Gelb on Bichette

Link to IF fielding value

Link to team payrolls

Link to team SP depth charts

Link to team positional projections

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