I got those by you and close up and most to you and what am I supposed to do?

Take it away, I never had it anyway Take it away and everything will be okay

Hello and welcome to episode 1689 of Effectively Wild, a fan graph's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

I'm Meg Rallye, fan graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Limber of the Ringer, but I'm for you

I am fully vaccinated, that's how I am, yeah

We used to report that the Effectively Wild podcast has cleared the 85% vaccination threshold

We can now relax our protocols or soon we can at least and yeah, 100% in fact both of us, we've got our second doses

Yes indeed and I think that editor Dylan is on his way to a second dose in the near future

So soon the entire extended active Effectively Wild family will be fully dose

Feels good, huh?

It does actually, yeah, I'm side effect free, so I've locked out there I guess

But yeah, good news, so we have some other news to talk about today

Some baseball news, some of it, not so good

There have been a couple notable injuries that we will have to discuss, couple firings, couple responses to conversations that we've had recently that I will read

Maybe a stat blast, just a jumble of things to get to today

So speaking of those injuries, couple real major blows to teams and obviously to the players involved

Dustin May of the Dodgers has gotten Tommy John surgery

And Luis Robert of the White Sox has a complete tear of his right hip flexor and is out for 12 to 16 weeks

Which could potentially end his season, hopefully not, but we shall see

And one way or another, I hope it doesn't affect his speed and defense when he comes back

He has been one of baseball's fastest runners, so couple serious injuries to very good players who were having good seasons and playing important roles on their teams

Yeah, you know, we've we've joked in the past about how pitching is bad for you and no one should do it

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