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Hello and welcome to episode 19, 81 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-graphed and I am joined as always by Ben Lumberger, the ringer. Ben, how are you?

All right, how are you?

I'm tired, but I am well otherwise.

Good. Well, we're much better off than at Windy as unfortunately, which is how we have to begin this episode.

Sadly, we will be devoting most of the episode to emails and we'll be joined by a Patreon supporter shortly.

But the big news of the day at Windy as out for the regular season, unfortunately out for the season as a whole with a Patelor tendon tear.

And it occurred after he closed out a very exciting game where Puerto Rico advanced over the Dominican Republic in the quarter finals.

And it was super exciting and he was also super excited.

And unfortunately, he was soon not excited because he heard himself celebrating.

So we just talked the other day when Sam was on, we talked about the history of players entering themselves while celebrating.

Didn't expect to see that happen again so soon, but it did.

He was in the midst of a scrum and they were all hopping up and down and it's kind of tough to tell what happened exactly in the footage that I've seen because he was sort of in the center.

But just in the midst of the hopping up and down, he just crumpled over and couldn't put weight on the leg and was supported as he hopped off the field and then was also in a wheelchair.

And I think everyone sort of feared that it was going to be a season ending injury as soon as we saw that.

Yeah.

Seen that sort of thing before and indeed that is the case.

So a big bummer for him for that team.

As soon as I saw it, I was like, oh no, because not only is it bad for him and the Metz and Metz fans and the Puerto Rico WBC team and everything.

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