I know it's a four-month sick, a bottle of hot fruit,

So more than I take off with my shirt,

I was recognized on a plane.

Hello and welcome to Episode 1025 of Effectively Wild,

a baseball podcast from FanGraphs,

presented by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lemberg of The Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan

of FanGraphs, so Jeff,

Hi, so we are doing a team preview podcast today.

We're going to talk to Mark Bradley about the braves in a little bit

and in an even littler bit.

We're going to talk to Grant Brisbee of coffee chronicles and espionation

and our hearts about the giants.

But first, just a little bit of banter, first quick thing.

We have a follow-up on the Andrew Miller batting practice cage mystery,

I guess.

We haven't really cracked the case,

but we did get an update.

We talked about this last week.

You spotted a photo of Andrew Miller throwing from the mound in spring training.

And the weird thing was that the cage that the pitcher would normally throw from behind

was behind him, and there was a coach standing behind the cage.

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