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Hello and welcome to episode 2320 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 Raleigh of Fangraphs, who remains on vacation until next week.

But in her stead, I have Ben Clemens of Fangraphs.

Hello, other Ben.

Hey, how's it going?

It's going okay.

You are sort of serving as the opener for this episode.

I've got a full slate here.

I'm doing a baseball jobs episode, and I will be talking to Adam Auer, who is the dietician for the Milwaukee Brewers, the major league dietician.

Yeah.

And then after that, I will be talking to Emery Brinkman, who is a professional fun fact finder, a senior editor for Stats Perform.

So you're sort of the warm-up act today, but nonetheless an important one.

I wanted to have you on just to talk about a few things before I get to our guests here.

I can probably catch up on current events with Meg when she returns next week, and we can get

into all of that in greater depth, and this story is evolving. But perhaps just briefly, we could

banter about the latest positional kerfuffle involving Raphael Devers, the first base brouhaha.

I knew what you were going to ask before you said it.

I did not brief you on this, but everyone's tongues are wagging about Rafael Devers yet again.

This is the sequel to the spring training situation where Rafael Devers wanted to play a position and the Red Sox didn't want him to.

Now it's the reverse of that. They want him to play a position and the Red Sox didn't want him to. Now it's the reverse of that.

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