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Yeah, we always start with a bang.

Yeah, no, I know.

Hopefully, I know.

Good morning and welcome to episode 190 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball

Prospectus.

I am Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, still on vacation.

When he goes away, he goes away for more than one day.

So he will be back on Monday, or at least that's the plan.

So joining me today for the first time on the podcast is Will Woods, who is writing

you may have seen on Baseball Prospectus.

He really started writing for us towards the end of last season and did a bunch of really

interesting articles, I thought, and then filled in a bunch of times on Dan Rathman's

rumor random, a few times over the winter.

And I hope that I will be able to persuade him to start writing regularly again soon.

But hello.

One day it's out of bed.

I'm delighted to be here.

As you know, I've been warming up at the bullpen ever since this podcast started.

And like a picture that's been warming up for the entire game, obviously I've got nothing

left.

So this is going to be a perversely entertaining episode effectively wild.

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