Have you guys been going from worst to first or are you been doing this?

We've just, we've gone first to worsted by division.

Oh, okay. It seems like we've been doing it for four years.

Good morning and welcome to episode 153 of Effectively Wild.

The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus.

In New York, I am Ben Lemberg.

In Long Beach, California is Sam Miller.

And in Brooklyn, New York, with us again, is Jay Jaffey.

Hello, Jay. Hello.

Jay is here to talk about the Dodgers.

After we talk about the Dodgers with Jay, Pete Barrett will talk to Ken Gernick

from LLE.com also about the Dodgers.

So Jay, at what point did, I guess at what point did the Dodgers make most of their moves?

Were you still writing at that point?

Did you have to do a lot of adjusting?

I had to do a bit of adjusting.

I mean, not only in terms of who was coming, but who was leaving.

Some of the guys who were the late cease acquisitions that didn't pan out, like Victorino,

was still a Dodger when I submitted the chapter and he signed with Boston.

But I think for the most part, the team was, I mean, the grind team deal hadn't come down yet.

The league one obviously had been done because that was the first thing, just about the first thing

that they did. But I think the outlook changed significantly once they did land grind key,

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