Will there be no back in our own need?

Don't try to cut me free.

Use it to save your mind.

Use it to give me the sign.

Hello and welcome to episode 1028 of Effectively Wild,

a baseball podcast from Vagress, presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Gimberg of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan.

Fancrafts, hello.

Hi, I'm going to do a team preview episode.

So later in this episode we'll be talking to Nick Piccoro about the Diamondbacks.

Sooner than that we'll be talking to Pedro Morra about the Angels.

Couple things before we get there.

One, they're coming for Carter Caps, our boy who we have enjoyed.

Watching strikeout half the better see faces and you chronicled what seemed to be an evolution

of his delivery early in spring training.

Maybe it was just something he was testing out in one of his first throwing sessions of the spring.

Whatever it was, it had more hops than he has had in the past.

And evidently that made Major League Baseball nervous because they quickly got a rule on the bench

to limit his hops.

And I think probably makes sense.

I always liked that Carter Caps existed, but I didn't really want more Carter Capses to come along.

We have enough strikeouts in the game already.

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