Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether Mike Trout has become a boring baseball player, Paul Skenes almost perfectly replicating his sensational rookie season, and recent trends in pre-arb extensions, answer a listener email (57:39) about becoming a fan of the whole league instead of (or in addition to) one team, and (1:14:49) meet major leaguers Josh Simpson and Dugan Darnell.

Audio outro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Trout hypotheticals

Link to 2025 TTO% leaders

Link to Trout TTO% by year

Link to leaguewide TTO%

Link to older hitters wRC+

Link to Trout’s Savant page

Link to Trout’s $ value

Link to Dalton photo

Link to pitcher WAR since 2024

Link to Skenes pitch-type splits

Link to Paine on extensions

Link to listener emails

Link to new debuts

Link to Simpson wiki

Link to Simpson interview

Link to phantom ballplayer wiki

Link to 2024 Simpson article

Link to 2025 Simpson article

Link to ERA-xERA leaders

Link to Dartmouth draftees

Link to Princeton draftees

Link to Yale draftees

Link to UPenn draftees

Link to Harvard draftees

Link to Brown draftees

Link to Columbia draftees

Link to Cornell draftees

Link to Ivy draftees ranking

Link to Darnell wiki

Link to Darnell article 1

Link to Darnell article 2

Link to Darnell article 3

Link to Darnell article 4

Link to Darnell article 5

Link to team RP WAR

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