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Michael Baumann is joined by Zach Kram to discuss the Washington Nationals’ brutal June and the Oakland Athletics’ chances of breaking into the AL playoff race (01:15). Then Megan Schuster comes on the pod to talk about our staff’s favorite player: Twins rookie utilityman Willians Astudillo (18:10). Finally, Ben Lindbergh explains why the Colorado Rockies just demoted their Opening Day starter, and how that demotion is even weirder than it looks (27:47).
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Megan podcasts about Formula One, writes about golf, and edits a whole host of other things. She is a Midwesterner at heart, all the way down to her crippling obsession with ranch.
Ben is a writer, podcaster, and editor who covers culture and sports. He hosts ‘Effectively Wild’ at FanGraphs and previously wrote for FiveThirtyEight and Grantland, served as editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus, and authored ‘The MVP Machine’ and ‘The Only Rule Is It Has to Work.’
