Ben and Sam banter about elbow injuries and then, in honor of Dan Uggla’s displacement, discuss the least-productive teams at each position.
In the era of aggressive defensive positioning, does the old-fashioned box score still tell us where people played?
Ben and Sam answer listener emails about the Scouting Bureau and scouting departments, stats and the mainstream media, genetic testing, and more.
Ben and Sam discuss whether the Astros’ analytical approach has become (or could become) a PR problem.
More brave bunters fight the good fight against the defensive shift.
Is the solution to baseball’s pace problem a rule that’s already on the books?
Prince Fielder’s injury may have ended the Rangers’ hopes of contending. Could it have been avoided?
Ben and Sam respond to the news about Prince Fielder’s surgery by discussing what teams can do to prevent players from concealing injuries.
Why are position players increasingly cast as mop-up men?
Ben and Sam talk to Dodgers VP of Medical Services and Head Athletic Trainer Stan Conte about the pitcher injury epidemic.
The Stephen Drew/Scott Boras qualifying offer odyssey comes to a non-tragic conclusion.
Ben and Sam banter about ejections and the Diamondbacks, then answer listener emails about pitch count histories, career strikeout records, a baseball version of the XFL, and more.
Ben and Sam banter about position player pitchers and Andrelton Simmons, then discuss batters’ latest attempts to bunt to beat the shift.
At one position, the A’s are still Moneyballing like it’s 1999.
Ben and Sam banter about the Dodgers and run differential and then discuss a surprising trend in managerial ejections thus far.
Bunts against the shift: up 100 percent since last season.