

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about baseball’s busy week and the Giants and Marlins moving in their outfield fences, then discuss the Angels’ signing of Anthony Rendon, touching on Rendon’s greatness and similarity to Mike Trout, what the Angels still need to do to contend and their outlook for 2020, Shohei Ohtani’s probable workload, the Dodgers’ relatively uneventful week, what this week’s activity tells us about baseball’s free-agent market, how to talk about opportunity cost with free agents, and more. Then they answer one listener email about why more players don’t sign with Scott Boras and another that inspired a Stat Blast about baseball’s most similar players, and finish with brief banter about the Rays signing Yoshitomo Tsutsugo and the Yankees bringing back Brett Gardner.

Audio intro: Belle and Sebastian, "Lord Anthony"

Audio outro: David Bowie, "New Angels of Promise"

Link to article on the homogenization of ballparks

Link to Grant on home runs and San Francisco

Link to Grant on the Giants’ quest for a 20-homer hitter

Link to FanGraphs’ home run park factors

Link to Neil Paine on Rendon as Trout’s best teammate

Link to Ben Clemens on the Rendon signing

Link to Tony Wolfe on the Angels’ pitching needs

Link to Phil Birnbaum on not being stupid

Link to info on similarity scores

Link to Thornton/Mayberry comparison

Link to data on most similar players

Link to order The MVP Machine

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