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Who am I?

Hello and welcome to episode 1672 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast for

Vangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of Vangrass. Hello Megh. Hello.

You've been busy all week with position of power rankings and I'm sure most people

are really enjoying your work and the work of your staff. But Ranger Shortstop Isaiah

Kiner-Fulefa is not one of those people. He was ranked and he was ranked

poorly. Yeah, so for those of you whose lives are not bound up in the fate of the

positional power rankings like mine, we rank every position one to 30. Every team gets a

ranking and there are a lot of ways to do season previews but we like this one

because it lets us go really deep in each position and kind of puts each position in

its league-wide context and tells you all sorts of good stuff. And the Rangers are ranked

the ranked dead last in the shortstop rankings and you know part of that is

that shortstop is it's just a really deep position. There are a lot of stars and

some of that is that they are not projected to be particularly good at the

position had lined by what Jason has has determined is 623 play appearances by

Kiner-Fulefa and his fielding projection is quite poor. I would note that he is

not expected to hit particularly well either but his fielding projection is quite

poor and he took on bridge. He took offense at this and tweeted that this is going

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