Well, it's moments like these that make you ask, how can you not be horny about baseball?

Every take hot and hotter, entwining and a budding, watch him climb

a mountain, nothing about nothing, every stitch wet with sweat, breaking balls back,

dormy on effectively while that can you not be horny?

When it comes to podcasts, how can you not be horny?

Hello and welcome to episode 2295 of Effectively Wild 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. Meg, today we're talking about breakouts.

Breakouts. Everyone groans. Yeah, we have covered that topic fairly thoroughly this winter. I am well aware. But this time,

we're talking about it in a different way. We're not just going to complain about other people's

breakout picks. This time, as promised, we are going to highlight some good breakout picks. We've

been voices crying in the wilderness about people picking two

obvious candidates. And today we're going to not single out, but double out two writers

who have done it the way that we want to see it done, who have had strict standards for what constitutes a breakout and have

dug deep and have come up with some more obscure players who, if they break out, it would

actually be surprising. And I would have no qualms whatsoever about saying that they were

breakout players. So R.J. Anderson of CBS Sports will be here, the perennial breakout picker, the best in the biz

in my mind, and Thomas Nesico, who joined the fray this year of TJStats on Substack.

Each of them did a list of one breakout candidate for each team, and they limited themselves

to the tough ones, the high degree of difficulty, and they will be here to tell us about their

breakout picking philosophy and their actual breakout picks. So this is healing for me personally.

I'm so glad because I mentioned this off mic as we were done recording our great

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