After a podcast preface by Ben Lindbergh about Mike Trout’s knee injury (sigh), Ben and Meg Rowley banter (4:19) about a weekend White Sox sweep, the overdue news that Nike is supposedly fixing the much-maligned MLB uniforms, follow-ups about rule rollbacks, ballplayer dirt ingestion, the “group Maddux,” and promotion/relegation, and the Twins’ summer sausage. Then (50:37) they talk to FanGraphs’ Ben Clemens about when it’s safe to evaluate changes in player performance and which hitters and pitchers have changed his mind the most (either positively or negatively) so far this season, plus a postscript (1:45:05).

Audio interstitial: Ted Berg, “Small Sample Size Song”

Audio outro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to MLBTR on Trout’s knee

Link to BP Recovery Dashboard

Link to Trout baby announcement

Link to Trout hypotheticals

Link to Trout video

Link to uniform memo report

Link to The Athletic on unis

Link to Greene pants tear

Link to Drellich on MLBPA/Fanatics

Link to Ben on pitcher limits

Link to group Maddux response

Link to summer sausage wiki

Link to AP on the sausage

Link to Athletic on the sausage

Link to EW guest leaderboard

Link to signature significance info

Link to batted-ball predictiveness info

Link to Russell on hitter stats

Link to Russell on pitcher stats

Link to Carty on hitter stats

Link to Carty on pitcher stats

Link to Dolinar on sample size

Link to Russell on stability 1

Link to Russell on stability 2

Link to Ben C.’s riser picks

Link to Ben C.’s faller picks

Link to Orr on Abrams

Link to Ringer preseason predictions

Link to FG preseason top 100

Link to Clemens on Littell

Link to Clemens on Musgrove

Link to FG on Realmuto

Link to Tango on Realmuto

Link to Flaherty strikeouts story

Link to outfielder box article

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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