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That's effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 22, 82 of Effectively Wild,

the Fangrass Baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Megrelli of Fangrass, and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer, Ben.

How are you?

Excited for our AL Central Toofer today.

Ooh, baby.

Let's go. Yeah. If you count our last Central tofer today. Ooh, baby. Let's go.

Yeah.

If you count our last preview of last week, which was the Kansas City Royals, we've had three

consecutive AL Central season previews, just given the people what they want here

uneffectively wild.

I'm just here to say that, like, you know, mid-sized cities in the Midwest, large cities in the Midwest, for that matter, they've got a lot to say that like you know mid-sized cities in the Midwest large cities in the Midwest for

that matter they've got a lot to recommend them Ben you know I've eaten good food I've stayed in

nice places I've met kind people I'm happy to spend this time in the Midwest although my

understanding is it is very cold up there right now so it's everyone suffering through frigid conditions, spring, it's around the corner. It's the baseball for you to dream on. Let's go. Yeah. So we're talking today about the twins and the tigers. Tigers. And these are two teams in fairly similar positions in terms of standings last year, though very important distinction between where they finished last year.

But in the grand scheme of things fairly close and projections wise and payroll-wise very close together.

And in fact, adjacent, I believe, according to the roster resource payroll breakdown, alphabetically adjacent to.

And somewhat similar in prospect rankings, farm system rankings.

So a lot of similarities.

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