Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Juan Soto’s free agency and Aaron Judge’s ego, follow up on in-season exhibition games, and (18:51) answer listener emails about the possibility of adding games to the baseball season, bullpen pitchers robbing a home run robbery, redrawing (or enforcing) coach’s boxes, pronouncing “wRC+,” programming ABS to help starters go deeper into games, Joey Votto vs. Lance Berkman, boycotting A’s games on the road, installing a second home plate (and/or double bases), replacing “bullets in the arm” with “throws of the dice,” using pitch counts instead of innings counts, and player development during suspensions.

Audio outro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Passan’s FA preview

Link to Judge/Soto story

Link to highest player AAVs

Link to longest contracts

Link to extension rejection story

Link to radio host on Judge

Link to laser pointers story

Link to Sosa 1998 exhibition

Link to new UEFA format

Link to story on shortening season

Link to Jankowski robbery

Link to Jankowski waiver news

Link to coach’s box wiki

Link to coach’s box rule

Link to MLB rules

Link to Yanks/Jays incident

Link to Yanks/Jays video

Link to Ben on the strike zone

Link to 1B JAWS

Link to LF JAWS

Link to double 1B story 1

Link to double 1B story 2

Link to double 1B story 3

Link to innings vs. pitches data

Link to Orelvis suspension

Link to suspended player rules

Link to rehab rules

Link to listener emails database

Link to MLBTR on Pasquantino

Link to Picollo quote

Link to hippos article 1

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Link to hippos documentary

Link to hippogriff wiki

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