

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley reflect on the passing of Tyler Skaggs. Then (9:57) Ben and Sam Miller banter about whether it’s better for a team to be in a division with a few good teams or a division with one great team and a few bad teams and answer listener emails about whether baseball is a strong-link sport or a weak-link sport, whether a team could benefit by tailoring its park and its roster to a homer-averse style of play, which teams they think it would have been better for baseball for Mike Trout to have been drafted by, plus Stat Blasts about Charlie Blackmon’s home/road splits and the return of vintage Coors Field, and Trout’s chances of setting the record for the longest-ever reign by an active WAR leader.

Audio intro: Built to Spill, "So"

Audio outro: Paul McCartney, "4th of July"

Link to Fabian Ardaya on Skaggs

Link to Stanton’s Instagram post

Link to Trout and other teammates talking about Skaggs

Link to Sam on Coors Field

Link to active WAR leaders data

Link to Sam on the Hall of Famers Trout passed in June

Link to order The MVP Machine

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