There isn't much that I have learned through all my foolish years.

Except that life keeps running in cycles.

First there's laughter, then those tears.

Hello and welcome to episode 174 of Effectively Wild to A-Baseball Podcasts from

FanCrafts presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Mittberg of The Ringer,

joined by Jeff Sullivan of FanCrafts.

So, no. Hi, doing an email show, anything you cared about before that?

Let's see. Two things, I guess we can start with there's some speculation out now.

So Freddie Freeman is going to return to the braves for two longies coming back from what

is it a fracture to wrist that he sustained in the middle of May.

And that was the injury that was supposed to devastate the braves.

But since then they've been able to, I don't know, keep playing as well as the braves can play,

I guess, because they traded for Matt Adams. Matt Adams is hit pretty well since he came over to

the braves and there is now a lot of freedom.

Really well, Freddie Freeman before the injury well, but maybe Freddie Freeman,

what he would have done well. So that is kind of like Eric Young Jr.

hitting almost like trout while trout is out. That's exactly the comparison.

I was just going to bring up. Okay.

And so now that the braves are trying to figure out, well, what do we do when Freeman's back?

Because you might have seen Matt Adams try to play the outfield when he was with the cardinals

earlier this year. We know that Tommy Fam did and he was not very good. So the braves are thinking,

well, we're probably not going to play Adams in the outfield, but we don't want to have him on

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