Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the likenesses, word counts, and stat citations on Hall of Fame plaques, what would happen if all past stats disappeared, the impending returns of Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw (and the recent return of J.T. Realmuto), the end of James Paxton’s time with the Dodgers, Jo Adell’s breakout fakeout and Jarren Duran’s belated breakout, Francisco Vicioso and Shaq Thompson, the morphing meme of Nick Castellanos, and the Brewers, the Mariners, and the challenge and payoff of rostering pretty good players.

Audio outro: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Mauer plaque

Link to Mauer hair commercial

Link to Beltré plaque

Link to Helton plaque

Link to McGriff plaque

Link to Leyland plaque

Link to Ruth plaque

Link to DiMaggio plaque

Link to Mantle plaque

Link to Fingers plaque

Link to FB post on plaques

Link to botched fresco

Link to article on Cobb’s hits

Link to WAR through age 27

Link to stats on hitter plaques

Link to stats on pitcher plaques

Link to BP on rewriting plaques

Link to Robinson statue article

Link to rebuilt Robinson statue

Link to The Onion stats article

Link to CME wiki

Link to MLB reboot episode

Link to MLBTR on Realmuto

Link to MLB.com on Realmuto’s return

Link to MLBTR on Trout

Link to MLB.com update on Trout

Link to Jaffe on Adell

Link to EW on Adell in May

Link to Sam on Duran

Link to Gomes on Dodgers pitching

Link to Reddit post on Vicioso

Link to Vicioso footage

Link to Shaq Thompson wiki

Link to Ben on Shaq in 2012

Link to Shusterman on Shaq

Link to Ben on Castellanos

Link to Apstein on playoff Castellanos

Link to Petriello on playoff Castellanos

Link to Levine on Castellanos

Link to McCarthy on Castellanos

Link to Levi on Castellanos

Link to Castellanos incidents tweet

Link to Castellanos incidents thread

Link to Jeff on avoiding the awful 1

Link to Jeff on avoiding the awful 2

Link to leading Brewers by PA

Link to Sheehan on the Brewers

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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