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Hello and welcome to episode 1022 of Effectively Wild.

We have a baseball podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by a just-seleven fan-graph.

Hello Jeff. Hello. It's a team preview podcast.

So later in this episode we're going to talk to my other baseball podcast co-host Michael

Bowman about the Philadelphia Phillies. We're also going to talk to Zachary Levine about the Astros,

but you have something brief to bent her about before we get there.

So one quick thing and one other slightly less quick thing. One thing real quick that I saw in the

Effectively Wild Facebook group. There was video of Yo on Moncada who apparently has a son.

I did not know that Yo on Moncada has a son, but his son who was two years old is featured in this

video not only hitting a baseball and then proceeding to run to first base, but flipping his

bat in a very exaggerated manner when he is about the little league equivalent of 45 feet away

from home plate. So he carries his bat. He sort of outstretched in front of him until he gets

far enough down the line that he just tosses it away out of disgust. So it's adorable in the way

that kids doing things that adults do is adorable. You can easily see Yo on Moncada teaching his child

to flip his bat. And hey friendly competition. Of course, Yo on Moncada would therefore be a

bat flipping role model. Meaning we can expect to see some bat flips from him in the future. One

thing for his son to work on. If you look at the video he flips his bat, but then he stops and he

considers to go pick up his bat before running to first base. The idea is that once you flip your

bat, you flip it and discuss like you don't need it anymore. And his kid went in pursuit thinking

maybe I will need this again, which is not the point. So there's some finer points to work on,

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