Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley lament the newly codified permanence of the zombie runner, rededicate themselves to “ghost runner” reeducation, and banter about a new position-player-pitching limitation, Andrew Chafin’s surprisingly modest contract, Derek Jeter joining Fox Sports, baseball’s leading newsbreakers vs. the leading newsbreakers in other sports, baseball officiating vs. football officiating, the schedule for Triple-A robo umps, and a 1937 proposal for baseball photo finishes. Then they continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the Cleveland Guardians (35:09) with MLB.com’s Mandy Bell and the Texas Rangers (1:12:18) with The Athletic’s Levi Weaver, plus Past Blasts (1:55:08) from 1873 and 1968 and a few follow-ups.

2023 EW Season Preview Series

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Audio interstitial 1: 10cc, “I’m Mandy Fly Me”

Audio interstitial 2: Levi Weaver, “Dark Clay”

Audio outro: Dr. Dog, “Ebenezer Scrooge”

Link to rules announcements

Link to extra-innings pace study

Link to Ben on TLOU

Link to Eric Stephen thread

Link to Eno on pos. player pitchers

Link to WaPo on PPP

Link to Royals Review on PPP

Link to MLBTR on Chafin’s option

Link to MLBTR on Chafin’s signing

Link to Stathead on leading LHRP

Link to Leo Morgenstern on Chafin

Link to Jake Mailhot on LHRP

Link to Sheehan on NFL/MLB calls

Link to Super Bowl holding play

Link to MLB.com on Jeter

Link to Katie Baker on Fox pregames

Link to robo ump schedule

Link to Max Bishop SABR bio

Link to Craig Wright on Bishop

Link to 1937 photo finish source

Link to article on photo-finish camera

Link to film development source

Link to other film development source

Link to FG team projections

Link to payroll rankings

Link to Guardians offseason tracker

Link to Guardians depth chart

Link to Rangers offseason tracker

Link to Rangers depth chart

Link to Levi’s wins prediction

Link to Levi’s author archive

Link to FG’s SP projections

Link to FG’s LF projections

Link to 2022 LF WAR by team

Link to Bochy’s W-L record

Link to 1873 article source

Link to Rob Arthur on OF shifts

Link to Rob on OF depth

Link to 1968 article source

Link to second ’68 article source

Link to third ’68 article source

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to CBA AAV rule

Link to NHL contract rules

Link to old CPBL logo

Link to Brännboll wiki

Link to Brännboll video

Link to 1796 proto-baseball text

Link to baseball exceptionalism wiki

Link to A Christmas Carol ending

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