Good morning. Welcome to Episode 147 of Baseball Perspectives's Daily Podcast Effectively

Wild. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. Later in the show, Pete Barrett will talk to

Zach Wells, a sports anchor slash reporter at the CBS affiliate in Cincinnati. But Ben

and I are going to talk to Jeff Young and Jay Jaffee, both of whom contributed to

the Reds chapter for the Baseball Perspectives annual this year, which is out by the way.

Which is out. Yeah. And it should be in your mail if it's not there already early this

week. So that's exciting times. Jay, the Reds won 18 more games in 2012 than they did in

2011. Normally, they would then fall under the Plexiglass Principle. Is there any reason

to think that the Reds, though, are immune from that and that they are really that strong

of a team? Well, I think they're I think they're a really strong team. But it's going to

be tough for them to get everything clicking the same way the same way that did last

year, particularly in the rotation where their five starters were able to take up just

about all their starts. I think they had a double header in there where they had to

use a six starter, but that kind of luck. You can't expect that to happen again. On the

other hand, they've addressed one glaring need in the form of adding Shinsu to be the lead

off header. They got just a bismoproduction from the lead off spot last year, 208 average,

254 on base, 327 slugging. So adding shoe is a big gain there. Well, we were going to

ask about the non offensive aspects of the two acquisition. And I guess I'll direct

it to Jeff, but either one of you can weigh in. Is this true in center field experiment

going to work out well? Is it going to work out adequately? Is it going to last the

season? Do you think? Well, I think it'll be interesting for sure. I mean, yeah, I mean,

that's one way of putting it, right? I mean, anytime you're talking about, you know,

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