Hello, and Nothing less than Effectively Wild

Hello and welcome to episode 2453 of Effectively Wild

of FanGrafts presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. Hello, Meg. Well, for the, I think,

third year in a row, we are wrapping up our season preview series with Dodgers and Rockies.

Best of times, worst of times. In both episodes, we have arrived at the extremes here, the top projection and the

bottom projection. And we will be talking to Fabian Ardaya of the Athletic about the Dodgers

and Patrick Lyons of Rockies Insider about the Rockies. Should have just switched it up.

We could have had Fabian talk about the Rockies and Patrick talk about the Dodgers.

That might have been entertaining too, but we didn't do that. I don't know if that would have been

nice to either side of that equation, right? Because then Fabian has to contemplate a bad team and

make poor Patrick like. Yeah, Dodgers envy. Yeah, gazed upon what he does not have. That feels,

that feels a little rough, doesn't it?

Yeah, probably all the other NLS teams probably sick as it is of the Dodgers seizing the spotlight constantly.

So we won't do that and we didn't do that.

But we did do another team preview series. We did.

We did.

Another 15 episode Odyssey through all 30 teams, pretty sure we didn't leave any out.

Please remind us if we did. But yeah, it's always a lot of labor, a lot of scheduling hassle.

But I think well worth it. We thank all of our guests. They are excellent as always.

And they give us their time very generously and share their experience. We thank all of our guests. They are excellent as always.

And they give us their time very generously and share their insight.

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