About this episode
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s daughter’s first steps, follow up on differentiating players with the same name, equipment replacements, and suggested recreational sports for Ben to play, and then discuss the Royals’ remade coaching staff (19:43), the career of the late, all-time-great Gaylord Perry (22:57), and the latest ESPN Crasnick/Rogers annual offseason MLB insiders survey (44:58), plus answers to listener emails (1:04:33) about an MLB awards ceremony, pitcher wins, and the Tigers’ rebuild, a Past Blast from 1937 (1:31:11), and a postscript. Audio intro : Brendan Benson, “ Spit it Out ” Audio outro : Jim Noir, “ JJC Sports ” Link to Jeongeun Lee6 LPGA page Link to Bradley forgetting outs Link to The Athletic on Sweeney Link to Royals Review on Sweeney Link to Manfred statement on Perry Link to MLB.com’s Perry obit Link to Perry’s SABR bio Link to Perry’s book Link to Nate on pitcher hitting Link to Sam on pitcher hitting Link to Eno on old pitchers Link to 44+ pitchers by year Link to latest ESPN survey Link to Sam on the insiders Link to Russell on the shift Link to execs on rule changes Link to EW emails database Link to Smyth on qualifiers Link to Mains on qualifiers Link to Miller on qualifiers Link to awards dinner info Link to Poscast episode Link to 1937 story source Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter Link to MLBTR on Eflin Link to strike-zone EW episode Link to shuttlecock article Link to road-attendance sheet Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source