All the other side, all the other side

I know what's waiting for me, all the other side

Hello and welcome to episode 1,0002 of Effectively Wild, the for now joint baseball

perspective and fangrass podcast I am Ben Lemberg of the ringer and I figured that seeing

as this podcast is about to be hosted at fangrass it would be appropriate for me to talk to a

fangrass host namely Carson Sastouly hello Carson hello hello Ben Lemberg good to have

you back on the program and I figured the loose plan would be that we would just chat a bit

since I'm about to move on to your turf in a sense and you could kind of give me the

lay of the land and give me maybe a psychological profile of Jeff Sullivan so that I know what

I'm getting into and the listeners know what they're getting into but then something more

pressing came up so I think we'll still get to those things but first we have some scouting

discussion to do so we have invited someone who is qualified for that sort of discussion

namely the lead or as Carson would say lead prospect analyst of fangrass.com Eric Lagan

Hagen. Hello yeah I'd argue Carson is the parasite and fangrass is the host but I think it's

important to be nice to Carson. I do too he makes fun of himself sometimes and that suffices so a

couple episodes ago or three episodes I guess Sam and I were discussing one of the weird hypothetical

tangents that we tended to get into and our friend and listener Tim Livingston sent us an

email to ask what Mike Trout would be as a left-handed hitter or how he would perform and we just

wildly speculated basically based on how good he is as a right-handed hitter and his general

freakish talent and athleticism but we had nothing really to go on as far as hard information

and so we just kind of concluded that he would be completely terrible at first like in his first

50 at bats or so if he just tried to do this in the middle of a season with no preparation he might

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