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Hosted by Ben Lembergan, Meg, Riley

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Hello and welcome to episode 2020 of Effectively Wild

a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters

I'm Ben Lembergan of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs

Hello, Meg

Hello

Which do you think is the most disappointing team of 2023?

Oh boy

I guess limiting it to teams that actually had high expectations coming into the season

Maybe that's assumed it would be tough to be the most disappointing team if no one expected you to be good

I'm just thinking of, well, the A's will talk about the A's but also the royals we talked about them last time

and how they're disappointing too in that they're terrible and maybe we're expected to be not terrible

But I'm talking less about the difference between terrible and less terrible or terrible and not terrible

and the difference between and really good or bad and good

There are a few contenders I think for most disappointing team thus far

and you know we're only what 41 or 2% or something of the way through the season

Long season

Do we want to establish the field and then...

Sure, yeah

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