Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Joey Meneses and John Brebbia being back in the big leagues, Mike Trout’s hamstring strain, Dillon Dingler’s dominance, a Blue Jays All-Star voting update, the latest Home Run Derby format change, MLB’s radical amateur drafts proposal, the DOJ’s MLB investigation and the York Revolution’s Pride event, Rafael Devers vs. Tony Vitello, and the struggle-bus swan songs of Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, plus (1:40:06) a postscript.

Audio outro: Garrett Krohn, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to MLB.com on Meneses

Link to MLBTR on Meneses

Link to MLBTR on Brebbia

Link to Ben on Meneses

Link to Brebbia on EW

Link to “Cecilia”

Link to MLB.com on Trout

Link to latest All-Star tallies

Link to AL “as 2B” leaders

Link to “primary 2B” leaders

Link to team OF rankings

Link to AL WAR leaders

Link to FG framing leaders

Link to Savant framing leaders

Link to on-pace leaders

Link to catcher batting leaders

Link to Derby report

Link to Derby format wiki

Link to The Athletic on MLB’s proposal

Link to ESPN on MLB’s proposal

Link to Cohen tweet

Link to BA on MLB’s proposal

Link to Dan S. on MLB’s proposal

Link to DOJ investigation story

Link to DOJ investigation story 2

Link to player reaction to investigation

Link to York Revolution statement

Link to York Revolution news story

Link to York Revolution wiki

Link to York Revolution news segment

Link to Teter clip

Link to story on Treinen

Link to Manfred letter

Link to York County voting results

Link to York County voting story

Link to Devers/Vitello interaction

Link to Devers/Vitello story 1

Link to Devers/Vitello story 2

Link to MLB.com on Scherzer

Link to Verlander quotes

Link to Verlander’s 25 things

Link to Upton story

Link to Verlander’s pitching splits

Link to Fleisig paper

Link to “tree of liberty” quote

Link to “rigor mortis” quote

Link to Worthington obit

Link to Episode 1505

Link to Shreiber obit

Link to Draft No. 4

Link to One Writer’s Beginnings

Link to Red McDermott at B-Ref

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