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Hello and welcome to episode 2191 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs.

Hello, Meg.

Hello, Ben.

Getting a late start.

I don't know why I'm talking about.

I don't know either, but I'm rolling with it. We're doing a bit now. We got a little bit.

Talking in a very Barney Rubble, Yogi Bear-esque cadence here.

This is a late start to our week, but they're going to come out.

You can count on that. And today, you can count on two more previews. We're going to be talking

to a couple of athletic writers. Matt Gelb of the athletic will be here to talk to us about the

Philadelphia Phillies, followed, of course, by Zach Meisel, who will talk to us about the Cleveland Guardians.

Yes, we're finally getting to the Guardians preview. Sorry for the delay, Guardians fans.

A couple things before we get to that, just a bit of banter. I've been wondering something about

the challenge system, and I'm curious about your thoughts. So we've talked about how it seems

to be going smoothly, other than the odd Max Scherzer objection.

Everyone seems to be more or less rolling with the testing of the challenge system in spring training.

Seems like we're headed very likely for challenge system in MLB games as soon as next year.

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