If baseball were different, how different would it be.

Players grow in third arms,

an infield in a tree.

Anything is fair game, even you can't get dirty pants.

And maybe if you're lucky, you will,

co-paul by a chance.

You never know precisely where it's gonna go by definition

Effectively wild

Hello and welcome to episode 2156 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of fangrass. Hello.

Hello.

I've been wondering this question since I saw one of our listeners

and Patreon supporters Ask It in our Patreon discord group this week,

have not been able to get it out of my head.

This was a question from Scott Brady who said as a thought experiment, how much dirt do you

think an average MLB player eats in a season.

Not intentionally, presumably, but just ingests, right?

And so I think to answer that,

you need to establish some sort of baseline which is how much dirt is the

average person in jest how much dirt do we in jest who knows right zero intentionally

but unintentionally from what I have been able to research.

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