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Author of Swing Kings and national baseball writer for the Wall Street Journal, Jared Diamond joins Keaton Gillogly to discuss national baseball coverage, what to expect from MLB pitching this year, the Blue Jays radio decision, parallels between the Cubs & Red Sox, and which team is better on paper - the 2018 Red Sox or the 2021 Dodgers.

You can follow Jared on Twitter @jareddiamond and pick up his book Swing Kings https://www.harpercollins.com/products/swing-kings-jared-diamond?variant=32130164555810

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First, Jason Hill of SB Nation talks about the Cardinals, their trade for Arenado, why we're seeing fewer big contacts, what the Cubs are doing, how the Cardinals are both fiscally responsible & trying to win, and more.

Nick Pollack, the founder www.pitcherlist.com, joins the show at the 48:00 minute mark to talk about the Yankees pitching staff, seam-shifted wake, what we can expect for pitcher workloads this season, biomechanics, and more.

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To provide the Rockies perspective of the Nolan Arenado trade...

To provide some Blue Jays insight...

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Kiona Sinks, of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, joins the show to discuss the museum, it's importance, it's future, and more.

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The MLB Channel gets together to breakdown the Baseball Hall of Fame candidacies of Bobby Abreu, Torii Hunter, Andrew Jones, Jeff Kent, Manny Ramirez.

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Blake Jamieson is one of 20 artists selected by Topps trading cards to recreate classic baseball cards. At the time of this conversation with Keaton Gillogly, Jamieson had completed 19 of the 20 cards he was slated to recreate during the Topps 2020 project.

Keaton and Blake discuss the Topps 2020 project, his process, and the baseball card industry.

You can find Blake's art at www.blake.art. You can follow him on Twitter @blakejamieson.

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Daniel Epstein is the Co-Director of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America. With Keaton Gillogly, Epstein discusses some hall of fame candidacies and the future of the free agent market.

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David Laurila is a writer for FanGraphs who became a hall of fame voter for the first time in 2020. David shares insight into his hall of fame ballot which he released on his weekly column.

Read his HoF column here...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes-a-hall-of-fame-ballot-explained/

You can follow David on Twitter @DavidLaurilaQA

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Keaton Gillogly discusses the hall of fame candidacies of Todd Helton, Scott Rolen, Andy Pettitte, Billy Wagner, and Omar Vizquel with Cal League Colleages Steve Wendt and Jill Gearin as well as Kevin Klein, Jeff Roberts, Andy Furman, Kevin Schwartz, and Ben Ross.