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Hello and welcome to episode 2276 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought

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I'm Meg Rowley Fangraphs, and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer.

Ben, how are you?

Doing okay.

I have good news and bad news about breakouts.

Okay.

Are you a bad news first or a good news first person?

You know, I reserve the right to change my answer conditions with notwithstanding, but I think, give me the bad news first, I suppose.

Yeah, I'm a bad news first person.

I want to end on a high note, right?

Sure, yeah.

And then lift me up, hopefully.

So when it comes to breakout candidates, breakout picks, one of the main

offenders, Jim Bowden, who is probably one of the main offenders in a number of ways, but specifically...

I'm going to say you've got to narrow that down. Yeah. But specifically, he's one of the main

offenders when it comes to breakout candidates who I would not consider breakout candidates because they've already broken out.

And he has published his annual list of breakout candidates for the athletic.

And as usual, I would say certainly the majority of them are not breakout candidates.

He leads with Michael Harris

the second, former wiki of the year. What are we talking about? Lards Butler is on there again,

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