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Hello and welcome to episode 2116 of effectively wild fangrass baseball

podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh of the Fangrafts, and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the

ringer. Ben, how are you?

Doing just well.

How are you?

I feel like I have like a good natural cadence to like 21-16 like I've got it I was I was

struggling with the yeah anyone da da da da you've adjusted yeah this new millennium we reached here. It really rolled off the tongue.

Yeah, 2116.

We are going to be talking to some Hall of Fame today, which we haven't done in a while since we had J Jaffe on.

We're going to be talking to a first-time guest, in fact a first-time guest on any

podcast.

Yeah.

Like to pop someone's podcast Cherry.

Like to be the first for anyone.

I should not put it that way but that is what came to my mind and that is what I said.

So we are going to be talking to Jason Sardel, who is a projectionist.

He is the leading projectionist for the Hall of Fame.

And I guess you might say, well, why talk to someone about Hall of Fame projections after the results are announced,

but I think in some ways it's actually more interesting to talk to him now that we know that

his model worked fairly well again and also talk about why it works and how it

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