We let me drown the wild in springtime By the hairline pondubs, wadlands side by side

The busy towns of bustling with what man has made a man Will you come?

Be me there in spring, we come Be me there in springtime

Where gold suns, whose we mag' ol' young shine Where every moment flogged and enjoyed the air

Bring the lily-t' call Be me there in spring

Hello and welcome to episode 1511 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from bandgrass presented

by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer, joined by Sam Miller of ESPN, hello Sam, hello.

I am back from vacation, thanks to you and Meg, for shouldering the load while I was

away.

I enjoyed listening to you both, although I was sorry to miss talking to Alex Spirin

Grant Frisbee, that is a primo preview episode saying yeah, two of our regulars.

So today we are bringing you another couple good guests, one is Aaron Gleeman, who will be

talking to us about the twins, then we'll be talking to Jason Mackie about the Pittsburgh

pirates, then I will be bringing you a quick conversation I had with Pirates pitcher,

Mitch Keller, whom I wrote about last week for the ringer, he and I discussed what it was

like to have a 475 Babip, an unprecedentedly high Babip as a rookie last year, thought

it was an interesting conversation, so we will append that to the end of the Pirates preview.

One quick thing I noticed, I tried to be on vacation while I was on vacation, only

answered a couple of listener emails while I was away, but I did see a tweet by rep

volunteer who used to be the twins beatwriters, now the angels beatwriters, and he just tweeted

Mike Traut's career spring training stats, and he didn't present it as a fun fact, there

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