Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley spar over Derek Jeter’s (and Aaron Judge’s) championship-or-bust rhetoric, Alex Rodriguez’s date night, Judge’s home run robberies, Judge’s offensive prowess compared to Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds, how stability (or lack thereof) could impact the AL MVP race, Juan Soto’s defense, how Seattle’s season may have sealed Scott Servais’ fate, the Royals’ valuable consistency, Michael Kopech as a Dodger, Dallas Keuchel’s latest target, the new old Jacob deGrom, and Jordan Montgomery and Blake Snell’s opposing views on Scott Boras. Then (1:14:39) they bring back Sports Reference software developer (and lead developer of Baseball-Reference.com) Kenny Jackelen to describe the work it took to make sure Danny Jansen’s unique “Two Teams in One Game” performance didn’t rattle B-Ref.

Audio introduction: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Jeter quote
Link to the judge’s quote from 2019
Link to the judge’s quote from 2023
Link to judge quote 2023 2
Link to the story about the reunion in 2009
Link to Duck Tour incidents
Link to A-Rod Date Night 1
Link to A-Rod Date Night 2
Link to Babe Ruth Award Wiki
Link to FG hitting speeds
Link to FG WAR leaderboard
Link to the WRC+ leaders of a season
Link to the best batsmen of a season
Link to the hit leaders since 5/1
Link to SIS judge statistics
Link to the article about the judge robbery
Link to the “Locked-in” quote
Link to “locked up” quote 2
Link to the judge’s splits
Link to Tango about Judge’s Embrace
Link to the FG Clutch leaderboard
Link to the WPA batting leaders
Link to pitching WPA leaders
Link to the cWPA batting leaders
Link to pitching cWPA leaders
Link to Spring Soto Game
Link to EW about Soto’s piece
Link to the article by Bradley/Soto
Link to Soto’s defensive history
Link to Ben in Harper’s defense
Link to the article on the Selig Rule
Link to Wilson Wiki
Link to Sheehan on the Royals
Link to Blood pressure IL General Ledger
Link to the team’s hitting age in 2024
Link to Jaffe on Kopech
Link to the Sox Machine on Kopech
Link to the article about the contract signing with Keuchel
Link to the title song by Carmen Sandiego
Link to DeGrom rehab article 1
Link to DeGrom Rehab Article 2
Link to DeGrom Rehab Article 3
Link to Montgomery comments
Link to Snell comments
Link to MLBTR to Montgomery/Snell
Link to MLBTR via Montgomery’s agent
Link to Jaffe about the Boras Four
Link to @mattomic tweet
Link to Kenny’s first EW appearance
Link to Cora on Jansen
Link to B-Ref game page
Link to Jansen match report
Link to Forman tweet
Link to Ballpark Meeting Forms
Link to Meetup Organizer Form

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