Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Clayton Kershaw’s again, balky backs usually, among the gamers traded on the deadline who made fast impacts of their debuts, and the maybe surprisingly small impacts that deadline strikes make on playoff and World Sequence odds. Then (15:09) they reply listener emails about deliberately scuttling a commerce for leverage in a future negotiation, what must occur to persuade them that the Rockies had been a well-run group, penalizing slow-paced pitchers by regularly reducing the mound, tips on how to design the right pitching hand, convincing MLB to chop ties with playing sponsors by paying gamers to throw video games, Gold Gloves for utility gamers, an moral conundrum involving Shohei Ohtani, and why we name them “triple-slash stats” when there are solely two slashes, plus a Previous Blast from 1885 (1:30:15) and followups.
Audio intro: The Smiths, “Stretch Out and Wait”
Audio outro: Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello, “Twenty Fine Fingers”
Link to article on Kershaw’s back
Link to article on stretching research
Link to article on the shortest day
Link to Dan on deadline improvements
Link to Merrifield article
Link to post on Rockies pizza party
Link to Sam Miller on the pit
Link to Driveline post on generating spin
Link to Driveline on finger/grip strength
Link to Fielding Bible utility awards
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1885 story source
Link to Angels tweet
Link to Timber Rattlers mascot
Link to Philadelphia Zoo mascot
Link to high-scoring-game box score
Link to 2014 Tigers rotation story
Link to 1880s baseball story source
Link to submarine softball story
Link to North Pole baseball story
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