Can we change it from our paper cupboards?

Never quite the same, and every step's moving through my eyes

And up into my brain, it has passed to you

About time to leave, cause the deed is playing with a movement

Said sorry, stay, start a step to the slammer's

As I'm waiting around for you

Hello and welcome to episode 2014 of Effectively Wild

The baseball podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrass

Hello, Hi, hello, so we're doing an email show

A couple things to get to before we do

One, I was curious you wrote in the last couple days about the Astros and the Royals

And how they no longer look like the Astros and the Royals

Or at least the Astros and the Royals we have become accustomed to over the past few years

And the Royals of course were an extreme contact hitting team

And now they're not, and the Astros were an extreme lack of contact hitting team

And now they're not, and it even looks like they might have the biggest contact improvement ever for a team in a single off season

So I was wondering whether you were scribe intention to these things

Do you think that these are the result of people in the front office getting together and saying

We had that kind of team and now we want this kind of team

Because we, I don't know, discovered that this kind of team is better than that kind of team

Or do you think that these things just float around for no particular reason?

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