Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about omissions from their Baseball Twitter draft, a few transactions (including the Kyle Lewis trade, the Gio Urshela trade, and multiple shortstop swaps), the Angels acquiring average players, the Dodgers non-tendering Cody Bellinger, the Phillies extending Dave Dombrowski, the new BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot and Ben’s ballot decision, a series of sports-betting investigations, a college-baseball trailblazer, comeback players of the year, and more, plus Stat Blasts (54:28) about Aaron Judge and intra-team WAR gaps, the most unique players put out, consecutive innings with double plays, and the timing of game-winning runs, a Past Blast (1:04:06) from 1933, and an Angels postscript.Audio intro: Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek, “Angels”Audio outro: Mimi Roman, “Never Ramble, Never Gamble, Never Roam”Link to Heyman tweetLink to Baer tweetLink to Nightengale tweetLink to Bautista tweetLink to Justin Choi on LewisLink to Baumann on shortswapsLink to MLBTR on DombrowskiLink to MLBTR on BellingerLink to Jay on the BBWAA ballotLink to Jay on the committee ballotLink to EW on Ben’s ballot last yearLink to NYT sports-betting threadLink to NYT sports-betting article 1Link to NYT sports-betting article 2Link to NYT sports-betting article 3Link to NYT sports-betting article 4Link to Olivia Pichardo newsLink to comeback players storyLink to Ryan Nelson’s TwitterLink to WAR-gap Stat Blast dataLink to putouts Stat Blast dataLink to game-winning-runs dataLink to Rob Mains on comebacksLink to 1933 story sourceLink to SABR on Browns ownershipLink to MLB.com on the BrownsLink to SABR on Jackie in MontrealLink to Jacob Pomrenke’s websiteLink to Jacob Pomrenke on TwitterLink to MLBTR on the Renfroe tradeLink to tweet about Renfroe and Trout Sponsor Us on PatreonSubscribe to Stathead (Code: WILD20) Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.comvar SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {});Source