I love you baby, ain't gonna lie

When I'm you darling, I can't be said to you

The things I'm going wrong for you

Oh, it hurts me too

Hello and welcome to episode 1229 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from

Bandgraffs presented by our Patreon supporters, I'm Ben Lindbergh of the

ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Bandgraffs who has a cold, hello Jeff who has

a cold, hi, Ben, who doesn't, how are you? I'm doing well, you didn't sound like you

had a cold on that high, maybe you're overcompensating for your cold by

projecting even more, you have a podcast voice and I have a podcast voice.

And it sends the same as usual so far. So we're gonna talk about a few topics

today. One of them will be somewhat depressing, but we will talk about it.

Anyway, I mentioned very briefly just in a note at the top of last week's

last episode that O'Tani was injured that he is on the DL, that he has a more

serious UCL spring than we knew before. We'll talk about that again in a minute

even though there has been no hard news. Just a couple of quick things I wanted

to mention first, since we're speaking about picture injuries, there was one on

Friday night that a lot of people were tweeting at me about because of the

content of our last podcast and my last article for the ringer, which is that

Masahiro Tanaka was injured in inter league play Yankees were playing the

meds and Tanaka was batting of course because it was at city field and he was on

base and he was trying to score on a sacrifice fly and he did, but in the

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