Parity, Payroll, and Deadline Decisions (Ep. 94)

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann discuss the injuries
that forced Clayton Kershaw and Stephen Strasburg to leave
their Sunday starts early (02:30), then bring on
FiveThirtyEight editor and senior sportswriter Neil Paine to talk
about the unusual eliteness of 2017's top teams (10:30), how
to evaluate whether a team should buy or sell at the trade
deadline (16:00), the teams with the toughest buy/sell
decisions this season (38:30), the best matches between
contending teams and expendable players (41:00), and the
outlook for Aaron Judge (43:30). Learn more about your ad
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