Hello, it's fair game, even Kike's dirty pants.

And maybe if you're lucky, we'll cope all by the chance.

You never know precisely where it's going to go.

By definition, Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2262 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, not joined today by Meg Rally of FanGrafts, who had the good sense to take an episode or two off.

And so I am joined by someone who did not have the same good sense,

but as always an able fill-in, Michael Batman, also of Fangraphs. Hello, Michael.

Someone who doesn't care as much about his family as Meg cares about hers.

To be fair, you initially said you were busy and that you were packing and preparing for a move,

but then I dangled the prospect of banter about college baseball in front of you, and you could

not resist it. I knew. I knew what would happen. We've worked together for so long. You know exactly

how to how to press my buttons, how to manipulate me. And how often do I press that particular button, where I even extend the invitation to talk about

college, no.

So you couldn't pass up that opportunity.

So I have wrangled you in.

I've wangled.

I have wrangled you to come join me today to talk a little bit about college baseball.

But also, I am going to tell you

about some things that Meg and I missed on Effectively Wild this year, because at the end of

every year, we do a Things We missed episode or sometimes two episodes where we talk about one story

about each team that we just did not discuss on the podcast or at least didn't discuss at length.

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