Player Health Issues Won't Be Assuaged and Mickey Welch's Complete Games Few Have Upstaged

This week we discuss the changing landscape of player health. Players no longer crawl and scrape to be on the field like they once did before guaranteed contracts, but do we think that's necessarily a bad thing? For our This Week In Baseball, we discuss Rickey breaking the single season stolen base record and stolen bases as a concept. Have stolen bases simply fallen out style in recent years or have they been deemed too risky buy the Moneyball and overoptimization crowds present in today's game?

Our Hall of Famer this week is pitcher Mickey Welch. He presents us with bonkers complete games and innings pitched as many of his 19th century colleagues did, but was it good enough to garner our blessing for Cooperstown?

In our singlular parting shot his week discuss the fate that befell J.R. Richard in 1980, the fallout, and whether the same could be happening to Zack Wheeler.

Enjoy our new crop of weekly commercials with WABC Radio 77 for the Yankees, Spike Lee and MJ on the baseball field, and Intellivision Baseball!

Please join us as we discuss baseball topics and we continue our mission to make The Hall small. We hope you'll enjoy the ride.

Timestamps

This Week In Baseball - 16:01

Hall of Fame Discussion - 30:15

Parting Shots - 44:27