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Hello and welcome to episode 2044 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Vangrass

presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lindbergh, of the ringer, joined by Meg

Grelie of Vangrass, hello Meg.

Hello.

Can I say something about football?

Oh, okay.

Fact check me please, but you know how there's a running back crisis going on in the

NFL.

Yes.

And this is largely analytics, saber metrics driven, right, that teams have recognized

that passing yields more yards per play tends to be more efficient on the whole.

So teams have gravitated toward more passing oriented offenses and to the point that now even

your say third string receivers are more efficient when it comes to gaining yardage than

your starting running back, right?

And it's other things too.

It's that I guess running backs have a pretty high replacement level.

You know, if you switch running backs, you don't tend to lose a lot and there have been

some prominent successful super bowl winning teams that didn't really invest in their running

backs.

And then also running backs get beat up, right, even more than the typical NFL player.

So they don't have a whole lot of longevity.

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