Ben Lindbergh and FanGraphs’ Michael Baumann play a recreation of “Faculty Baseball Participant or Vuelta a España Stage Winner?”, focus on Kumar Rocker’s potential and path to the majors, and (17:38) meet main leaguers Tyler Jay and Richard Fitts, earlier than speaking (39:33) to *checks notes* Marlins reliever Large Mike Baumann about turning into the second main leaguer ever to play for 5 groups in a single season. After that (1:05:10), Ben chats with Baumann’s teammate Declan Cronin about how he’s held hitters homerless all season, the high-BABIP blues, the most recent developments in pitching improvement, participant paperwork, and extra. Then (1:39:52) Ben brings on author Lakshmi Gandhi to debate Rocker’s significance as the primary MLB participant of Indian descent, earlier than ending (1:55:39) with a number of follow-ups.
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