Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and Effectively Wild listener/Patreon supporter Alana Crockett banter about Alana’s baseball background, pitcher representation in the MLB and MLBPA logos, and former umpire Joe West allegedly editing his own Wikipedia page, then (26:44) answer listener emails about a “cheap team tax” in trades, a pitching coach superpower, trading for the Rays’ front office, batters tossing the ball to themselves, a reboot of The Baseball Bunch, batters predicting pitch types, and called strikeouts on pitches straight down the middle, plus a Stat Blast (1:22:21) about Fernando Valenzuela and players with the best statistical cases to have their numbers retired, a Past Blast (1:47:21) from 1966, and a few follow-ups.

Audio outro: Mates of State, “Everyone Needs an Editor”

Link to new MLBPA logo

Link to MLB “duck” logo

Link to MLB logo origin story

Link to NBA logo origin story

Link to Joe West Reddit thread

Link to Joe West wiki

Link to Crewchief22 talk page

Link to Hershiser game box score

Link to Hershiser game video

Link to other Hershiser game video

Link to EW emails database

Link to SP/RP velo study

Link to exit velo breakdown

Link to The Baseball Bunch wiki

Link to The Baseball Bunch oral history

Link to story about other Gary Cohen

Link to other Cohen’s IMDb page

Link to LaRoche retrospective

Link to latest Votto video

Link to Votto’s top hat

Link to Trevino video

Link to Rob on the banging scheme

Link to the Nichols Law

Link to Harry’s game-calling study

Link to EW episode with Harry

Link to Cameron’s game-calling study

Link to EW episode with Cameron

Link to Cameron’s Guardians tweet

Link to catcher RDTD K leaders

Link to catcher fastball RDTD K leaders

Link to pitcher RDTD K leaders

Link to story on Valenzuela

Link to Stat Blast spreadsheet

Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter

Link to list of retired numbers

Link to story on Dodgers candidates

Link to story on Garvey’s number

Link to story on Mussina’s number

Link to Berkman commercial

Link to 1963 Past Blast source

Link to CICL MLB alumni

Link to 1966 story source

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to Nugget’s Instagram

Link to Reddit study on Klentak

Link to article on Earth’s core

Link to “Go west, young man” wiki

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