Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Kevin McGonigle’s new contract and whether pre-arbitration extensions are still team-friendly, Tatsuya Imai’s adjustment period, MLB’s average four-seam fastball velo nearing 95 mph, a new frontier in catcher’s interference calls, and whether a new challenge signal should replace the head/helmet tap, then (1:21:02) Stat Blast about a historic scoring day, games in which the score most often matched the inning, homering against all other teams while playing for one team (and the most homers without going deep twice against the same team), opposing pitchers catching pop-ups in the same game, driving in oneself and no one else, and season-starting streaks of games with a lead.

Audio outro: Luke Lillard, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to MLBTR on McGonigle

Link to Paine on extensions 1

Link to Paine on extensions 2

Link to Ball on extensions

Link to Nightengale on extensions

Link to Rome on Imai

Link to Imai synopsis

Link to Rome on interpreters

Link to story on Duran incident

Link to Statcast velo by year

Link to Pitch Info velo by year

Link to Pitch Info info

Link to righty Statcast velo by year

Link to all-pitches velo by year

Link to Woodrum on velo

Link to Sam on flames

Link to EW on flames 1

Link to EW on flames 2

Link to Trueblood on fastball counts

Link to EW on CI

Link to 2024 CI totals

Link to 2025 CI totals

Link to Sam on the Meidroth CI

Link to Sam on the Cubs CI attempt

Link to Sam on swings and the CI

Link to Ohtani accidental challenge

Link to Chandler accidental challenge

Link to Rice accidental challenge

Link to 2025 Lee incident

Link to challenge rules

Link to volleyball challenge rules

Link to NHL officials wiki

Link to Crawford rehab update

Link to April 13 scores

Link to April 13 offense

Link to MLB batting stats pre-4/13

Link to MLB batting stats post-4/13

Link to Trout-Judge gamer

Link to score matching inning info

Link to homers vs. teams spreadsheet

Link to homers vs. distinct teams data

Link to pitcher pop-ups spreadsheet

Link to O’Neill’s OD HR streak

Link to team leads spreadsheet

Link to Sam on win expectancy

Link to listener emails database

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