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Hello and welcome to episode 2327 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.

Well, we have a new hardest hit ball of the statcast era.

How necessary do you think it is that we append of the stat cast era? I mean, we have to

for accuracy's sake, but do you think that if we had an all-time batted ball exit speed

leaderboard that encompassed all of baseball history, that the top of that leaderboard would

look a lot different than the stat cast era one or just a little different.

I guess what I'm asking is, do you think that balls are being hit harder now at the extremes than ever

before? My instinct is to say, yes, I think at the extremes, I might even be open to the notion that

they're being hit harder on average, not just at the

extremes.

Yeah.

But look, it's not that there would be no one from prior eras of baseball history.

There have been plenty of fellas over the years who have really walloped it, as it were.

Yeah.

But I suspect that if you're putting, you know, the Aaron judges and the John Carlos Stanton's and the, as we're probably about to reveal, O'Neill Cruises of the world, up against the hitters of yesteryear, that the modern bunch is going to come out ahead on average. So that's my instinct,

but, you know, we'll just, I guess we'll never really know, will we? No, probably not. We could

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