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When land, land back,

and back rally. Hello and welcome to episode 2151 of effectively wild a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our

Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of

Van Grafs. A low Meg. Hella. Meg it's not looking great for my bold

prediction about how we would have the most stolen bases per team this season since the 1980s.

I was basically banking on a further increase in the running game in steals from

last year's big uptick after the rules changes it's not happening it's really not

happening so far and I'm rapidly losing hope that it will happen.

There was a big debate.

Will it go up?

Will it go down?

I was on the up side.

I understood the downside, which is basically just,

hey, it went up a lot last year.

There will probably be some regression.

Things will settle.

The trend was down.

That's why they changed that rule.

And so having not changed any further rules

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