Sometimes I still feel like that little girl hearing grandma's hand-held hearing Grandma's handheldies collecting baseball cards before I could read.

You say I waste my time tracking all these that lines and here I found my kind

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Hello and welcome to episode 2200 of effectively wild, a fangrafts

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I'm all right how are you two hundred I struggled with how to say. I know we have to reset psychologically every

hundred episodes when we do those intros. Tell me if this seems strange to you

Hazar Sanchez now has the longest home run hit this season.

Probably not the player you would expect to be at the top of that list, right?

He's his own hiss' highest paid active Marlin

2.1 million dollars as I mentioned

mentioned on a recent episode only active Marlin making more than a million

with a couple of higher paid pitchers on the I. L.

below average hitter this year and for his career.

Yeah. Has some pop obviously as he demonstrated with this bomb off of Jacob Junis

but still longest Homerer of the season wasn't it coarse or anything it was just a very long home run

and I was wondering how weird that was for the longest home run hit this season to be hit by Hayser Sanchez, not Otani, not Judge, not Ellie or O'Neill or any of the obvious candidates.

And I've come to the conclusion that maybe it's not actually that strange

because I've looked back at the Statcast era history of the longest home run hitters in each season

and they're not always the ones you would expect. You would think that Judge and Stanton

and Otani would dominate this category and they are certainly represented

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