I think it was effectively wired.

I do enough strikes and do the ball round enough to keep them off balance.

One of the good leaders is the one of the good leaders.

One of the good leaders all the way.

All the way Lord, from love to heaven.

One of the good leaders all the way.

Hello and welcome to episode 1558 of Effectively Wild A Baseball Podcast from Fangress.

Presented by our Patreon supporters, I am the member of the Ringer Joint Fight Jeff Sullivan of Fangress.

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I was just navigating to the Fangress leaderboard to see where things stand in this sport that we talk about.

And Bryce Harper, right on top, 2.8 war, Mike Trout, 2.5 war.

I derive such satisfaction from seeing those two guys at the top of the leaderboard.

It just makes the whole world feel orderly and predictable and exciting at the same time.

It's great for baseball that these two guys are the best players in the sport.

It's great for us because we get to feel like we understand baseball on the most basic level that we know who the best players are there, who they were supposed to be.

I just hope that they finish the season 1, 2 in some order again.

I like this. I hope that this could just be the way that baseball is every year for the next decade or so.

If you could just stay normal at the top and then if you look at, there's a combined war leaderboard on Fangress,

combining position players and pitchers. And if you look at that just outside of the top 10, you get these names in order.

Cory Dickerson, Aaron Hicks, Ayuhenio Suarez, Zach Cowsart, Jason Vargas.

The baseball is still weird, it's still plenty weird, but it is perfectly normal at the top assuming that you figure Bryce Harper bouncing back is perfectly normal.

And it makes sense. Miguel Sonoa is there. That kind of makes some sense. Aaron Judge, because he's basically Miguel Sonoa, Paul Goldsmith,

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