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Good morning and welcome to episode 145 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective.

I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California with Ben Lindbergh in New York, New York.

We'll be joined later in the show by David Lennon, a baseball columnist for News Day who

will be talking with Pete Barrett about the New York Metz.

But in the meantime, we're here with Jason Voccikovsky and a large moth to talk about the

Metz.

Jason, how are you?

It's a very small moth, just a really annoying one.

We just started.

I see.

But I killed it.

That's a good way to get in the good graces of one of your hosts.

The killing of bugs never goes over poorly on this side of the podcast.

So Jason, we're going to talk about the Metz.

If you were just walking down the hallway of the Metz executive offices looking at the

names on the doors, you would think you were in a sabermetric wonderland with Sandy Alderson

and Paul Deepadesta.

Is there anything that is notably sabermetric about this team or really, is there anything

notably progressive about this team in any way or shall I say, is there anything notable

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