Episode 814
Meg Rowley is the managing editor of The Hardball Times. She’s also the guest on this edition of the program, during which she provides an account of James Paxton’s no-hitter as seen from a pizza place in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle.

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Episode 813
Travis Sawchik has authored one book and is in the process of authoring another one. He joins this edition of the program from a chain bookstore in the suburbs of Cleveland.

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Episode 812
Dayn Perry is a contributor to CBS Sports’ Eye on Baseball and the author of three books — one of them not very miserable. He’s also the spiritual invertebrate on this edition of FanGraphs Audio.

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Episode 811
Shakeia Taylor’s work has appeared both at Complex and The Hardball Times. Most relevant to this episode, she has also served as FanGraphs’ resident for the month of April. On this edition of the program, she discusses Cleveland baseball and Chicago baseball and youth baseball.

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Episode 810
Eric Longenhagen was told by a source before publishing his Astros list that right-hander Josh James, a former 34th-round pick and generally obscure prospect, had been recording higher fastball velocities in camp. Given James’ age and modest numbers as a professional, Longenhagen omitted him from the Astros list anyway. In the meantime, however, James has cobbled together one of the best starts in all the minors. Should it have been obvious? Would Longenhagen do anything differently? Those are questions the host of FanGraphs Audio fails to ask explicitly.

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Episode 809
Jay Jaffe has served as a contributor both to Sports Illustrated and, before that, to Baseball Prospectus. He’s the progenitor of the very famous JAWS metric and also author of the reasonably famous The Cooperstown Casebook. This represents his inaugural appearance on the program.

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Episode 808
Meg Rowley recently collected and published FanGraphs’ staff predictions for the 2018 season. In this episode, she both (a) examines those predictions and (b) endures the host as he reviews last year’s edition of the same exercise. Also discussed: how Shohei Ohtani is likely of some benefit to the Angels but probably less benefit to the Mariners.

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Episode 807
Travis Sawchik recounts three conversations from his tour of camps this spring: Joey Votto on aging, Chris Archer on four-man rotations, and Eric Hosmer on how Sawchik might very well be an idiot.

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Episode 806
Three of the 2018 draft’s top-10 prospects have played near Eric Longenhagen in Arizona this spring. He shares not only his thoughts regarding those prospects but also his ideas about them. Also: scouting a two-time Cy Young winner. And: the concept of “reverse projection.”

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Episode 805
Meg Rowley recently published a two–part taxonomy of baseball ejections, each post populated largely by video of adult men wildly flailing their arms and other appendages. “Is this real anger?” the host asks. Patiently, is how Rowley responds.

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