Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Mets, the Padres, and the AL Central, Jacob deGrom’s UCL, Mike Trout’s slow (by his standards) start, and a Phillies pitch-clock controversy, then (23:32), in honor of Elly De La Cruz, draft the 26 best MLB players under 25 years old (see link below to vote!), followed by a Past Blast from 2017 (1:13:54), closing banter about the Blue Jays and Red Sox DFAing Anthony Bass and Matt Dermody, respectively (1:17:22), and updates.

Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Rosenthal on the Mets

Link to story on Phillies pitch clock

Link to Sam Blum on Trout

Link to Jay on Trout

Link to Ben on deGrom

Link to Baby Gronk explainer

Link to giant baby meme

Link to Elly’s prediction

Link to Statcast on Elly

Link to EW drafts/competitions

Link to listener voting form

Link to MLBTR on Bass

Link to Toronto Star on Bass

Link to The Athletic on Dermody

Link to Bloom on Dermody

Link to Dermody’s Twitter likes

Link to 2017 Past Blast source

Link to other Past Blast source

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to Blaseball EW episode

Link to article on end of Blaseball

Link to Greinke EW episode

Link to new Greinke stories

Link to Diekman EW episode

Link to BP on Diekman

Link to Judge fence article

Link to Yankees super-error

Link to Ohtani vs. RHP sweepers

Link to Ohtani vs. LHP sweepers

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