I call you blue, I've got a message in a song for you

You're like a meal, you want me through

I call your blue, warm blue

I call your blue, warm blue

I call your blue, warm blue

I call your blue, warm blue

Hello and welcome to episode 1844

Effectively Wild, a fan-grabbed baseball card cast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-grabbed and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumber of the Ring

And how are you?

I am doing well and it is baseball book season

And we've just read one so we're going to discuss it in just a second with an author and a co-author

April the book is closed

I just wanted to give you the stats, the offensive stats, the cold hard facts about offense in baseball in April

It was not great

I followed through on my promise or threat to do an article about what I stat blasted about a couple weeks ago

About the idea of limiting the number of pictures on the active roster

I think it's a good idea, I ran through why and had a bunch of data and information and graphs in there

Which I will link to on the show page, but for that I was doing some April offense comparisons

And boy, it was bleak and I don't know what to make of it because you never know if part of it is just compressed spring training

And late start to the season and who knows maybe things will equalize a little bit

And obviously as the weather warms up offense will take up too

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