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Hello and welcome to the episode 2215

of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Van Grafs presented by our

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

Hello, Meg. There has been a break in the case of Carlos Estevas's purported

prediction from 2021. Oh boy. In fact I'd go so far as to say it's been blown wide open, much like Carlos Estevas blew a save on Monday,

although he ended up winning that game. And you know what, I think I have won this investigation because I dare say

I've solved it I think I've gotten to the bottom of this thing so for those of you

who did not hear episode 2,14.

We began that episode by discussing at considerable length

a reported prediction that

Carlistevez, now Philly's closer, former Rockies closer, had made back in 2021 in September of that season

when he was still on the Rockies.

This was reported by Alex Coffey of the Philadelphia Inquirer and we were somewhat skeptical of the

prediction as reported and we always take a tone of skepticism to player predictions. I would say that's one of our beats here at

effectively wild player predictions. Maybe a bad beat at times, but it's something that we often consider and I would suggest that we subject

player predictions to a certain scrutiny that most reporters do not afford them.

I would say we speak truth to predictive power at times.

We question whether these predictions are as impressive

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