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Hello and welcome to episode 1549 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast for fan graphs presented

by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Linberg of the Ringer Flying Solo today.

Nice to talk to you again.

As you may know, we pressed pause on the podcast last week.

It just didn't feel right for us to go about banter as usual.

We wanted to take a step back, but other people talk, listen and learn.

Give our listeners more time to listen and learn, and we're grateful to everyone who understood that decision.

And for our return, we didn't want to go straight to mic trout hypotheticals.

There will be a time for that again, but we thought it was important to acknowledge and examine everything that's gone on over the past couple weeks,

not just in baseball, but in the world at large.

And I thought a good guess to help us do that would be the man I'm talking to today, Trey Harris.

Now if you've read the MVP machine, my book about player development from last year, you may remember Trey.

He was the star of chapter 11, the chapter about college baseball.

I really enjoyed talking to him at the time, more so about his history as a player than his history as a person outside of the sport.

And Trey has a really great story.

In his first couple of seasons of college ball at the University of Missouri, he really struggled.

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