Ben Lindbergh addresses an interview improve on the previous episode, chats with FanGraphs’ Dan Szymborski about Luis Arraez’s possibilities of batting .400, Stat Blasts (22:36) about extremes in staff successful and dropping streaks, welcomes in David Lewis (28:00) for the ultimate Previous Blast, and talks to prolific science fiction (and baseball science fiction) writer Rick Wilber (44:48) about being the son of massive leaguer Del Wilber, his profession and love for baseball and sci-fi, and the podcast’s forthcoming Future Blast sequence, plus a postscript (1:26:00) about Tyler Wells and Taylor Partitions, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, Rob Manfred and public ballpark funding, contentious performs on the plate, and a brand new walk-up-music database.
Audio intro: Andy Ellison, “Successfully Wild Theme”Audio outro: The Gagnés, “Successfully Wild Theme”
Hyperlink to Carleton interview episodeLink to MLB.com on ArraezLink to Statcast park factorsLink to Silly thread on AVG+Hyperlink to AVG+ leaderboardLink to story about Reds’ newest winLink to Reds streak enjoyable factLink to Ryan Nelson on TwitterLink to longest in-season-streaks sheetLink to extra streaks dataLink to Previous Blast EW wiki pageLink to 2023 Previous Blast sourceLink to Ben on the pitch clockLink to Ben on the pitch clock againLink to B-Ref’s new guidelines pageLink to Rickwood Discipline storyLink to Hinchliffe Stadium storyLink to first Dick Trueman episodeLink to second Dick Trueman episodeLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to Rick Wilber’s websiteLink to Wilber’s baseball worksLink to My Father’s GameLink to Del Wilber’s SABR bioLink to Fortunate Starr wikiLink to Wade/Ward wikiLink to Trout/Betts interviewLink to Trout/Ohtani at-batLink to Bochy ejection videoLink to Melvin ejection videoLink to the NYT on plate-blockingLink to Heim’s replay-review gestureLink to Manfred’s Time interviewLink to students survey on fundingLink to story on the Astros commentLink to commerce bushes siteLink to commerce values siteLink to string on walk-up-songs siteLink to MLB walk-up-songs siteLink to The Stroll-Up DatabaseLink to walk-up-site requests thread
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