Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about several oddities of the early season, including pitcher Ryne Nelson’s single and a drone encounter with an A’s bat boy, then discuss Jurickson Profar’s PED suspension, Garrett Crochet’s extension, and Jonathan Lucroy‘s reaction to Roki Sasaki’s apparent post-start tears, before bantering about whether full ABS would encourage even harder throwing, Lance Lynn’s retirement, a wild college throw, and more, plus a postscript.

Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Jay on the White Sox
Link to Nelson hit
Link to more on Nelson
Link to Pirates Elias tweet
Link to B-Ref Brewers post
Link to The Athletic on Profar
Link to Orr on Profar
Link to Ben on natty or not
Link to Baumann on the Braves
Link to MLBTR on Crochet 1
Link to MLBTR on Crochet 2
Link to MLBTR on Campbell
Link to Sheehan on Crochet
Link to Dan S. on Crochet
Link to MLB.com on Crochet
Link to drone story
Link to Sasaki clip
Link to L.AT. on Sasaki
Link to Lucroy tweet 1
Link to Lucroy tweet 2
Link to more Lucroy tweets
Link to Wolfe quotes
Link to r/tragedeigh
Link to McAfee story
Link to ABS story 1
Link to ABS story 2
Link to Lynn podcast
Link to RF throw
Link to MLBTR on Vlad
Link to Shapiro story
Link to MLBTR on Pfaadt

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