Ben Lindbergh, Rany Jazayerli, and Neil Paine focus on the dying of Willie Mays, Mays because the final legendary hyperlink to an earlier period, the statistical instances for Mays as the best all-around participant and best participant, interval in main league historical past, and (36:45) baseball’s new best dwelling participant, plus (46:02) banter about Kansas courting the Royals with public funding and (50:38) the aggressive trajectories of the Royals and Mets. Then (1:01:08) Ben brings on frequent Stat Blast correspondent Ryan Nelson for Blasts about groups that hover close to .500, pitchers changing same-surnamed pitchers, prolific umpire-player ejection combos, essentially the most gamers with the identical first identify in the identical recreation, and Alex Verdugo’s grounders.
Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Successfully Wild Theme”Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Successfully Wild Theme”
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