On the 25th episode of the DFA podcast, Bryan is joined by Rob Mains to talk about the AL Wild Card race and how a recent spate of injuries could change the playing field. Then it’s on to … more injuries to pitchers! And … more injuries to pitchers! Yuck!
Doug Fister shuts down the Indians, Gary Sanchez goes very deep, and Ichiro Suzuki out-slugs Giancarlo Stanton.
Arrieta is looking more dominant than he has all season.
The record has gone from oddity to embarrassment to a somewhat perverse point of pride.
The Shift. Four-man outfields. Five-man infields. Joe Maddon madness. What does a ‘position’ even mean now?
Orson Welles returns to the microphone, baseball players as iconography, and a review of a pleasant little board game.
Notes on Teoscar Hernandez, Antonio Santillan, Jake Burger, Jake Bauers, Freddy Tarnok, and more.
It might be scoreboard-watching time for the 2001 Mariners.
The Statue Got Me High, but Don’t Let’s Start the Spiraling Shape.
First-hand looks at Yu-Cheng Chang, Mike Papi, Taylor Trammell, Bryan Reynolds, Ademar Rifaela, and more.
Garcia was always supposed to be here, but his path to playing time was not without its travails.