How can you not be predicted?

A stabblast will keep you distracted

It's a long, short, and deaf, but the short will make you smile

This is effective for one

Hello and welcome to episode 1989 of Effectively Wild a Baseball Podcast from

Fancrafts presented by our Patreon supporters. I'm Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer, not joined today by my co-host Meg Raleigh of Fancrafts who is on the road

She'll be back next time, but filling in for her is Noah Woodward, who I'm very happy to have

Noah welcome to Effectively Wild. Thank you, Ben.

So people who've been listening regularly probably have heard me mention Noah's name

a few times this spring. He's leading the league, I think, in citations on Effectively Wild so far this year

because he is the author of a sub-stack called the Advanced Scout, the advanced scout.substack.com

and he's been breaking down baseball and he's been writing about the rules changes and forecasting

what we might see and now that we're a few days into the season and everyone is dissecting

what is working well and what is not and how players are adapting and responding. I thought you

would be the perfect person to talk to because this used to sort of be your job so we should

talk a little bit about how you got to this point because you're no longer working in baseball,

but you used to be a blocker, you used to write at baseball perspective among other places. I edited

you there and then after college you worked a little bit in consulting and then you went into

baseball and you were in intern for the Orioles and then you worked for the Braves for four plus

years and you rose up to be their senior manager of major league operations until you left in 2020.

Am I more or less getting that right? Is there anything else you'd care to share about your

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