Hello and welcome tracking all these stat lines, but it's here I found my kind,

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Hello and welcome to episode 2348 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, not joined today by Meg Rally of FanGraphs, but joined instead by someone who works for, works with Meg, another member of the Fangraph staff, Davy Andrews, rejoining us today.

Hello, Davey.

Hey, Ben. How are you doing?

So Meg was a late scratch.

This was sort of, it's appropriate for All-Star Week, I suppose.

She had to rest up for the remainder of the season.

You are the Randia Rosarena to Meg's Julio Rodriguez.

You're stepping in interstead.

I have not been doing enough push-ups to be the Randy Roserina.

Well, not physically necessarily, but you are a replacement. Still an all-star. You're both

all-stars in my book and, and officially for that matter.

And I don't know, Meg, she posted a selfie the other day on Blue Sky of blooper, Braves' mascot,

and Haunter of Meg's nightmares, just looming over her shoulder with the text help exclamation point and then told me

that she couldn't come on this episode at the last second.

Not saying those two things are connected, but she was in very close proximity to blooper,

and now we're not hearing from her.

What that means I will leave up to people to draw their own conclusions.

It appears in this picture, which I had missed, I was on vacation this weekend, that Bluper

is giving someone a back rub at the time?

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