Take me to the diamond, lead me through the turnstile.

Shower me with data that I never thought to compile.

Now we're freely now a scorecard with a cracker jacket of smile,

Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2507 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs

presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of Fancrafts.

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

This is a rare, regular episode Sunday recording for us to avoid my ongoing jury duty.

Dude.

Because I have not yet fulfilled my obligation, as Carson Sustuli would say, to New York State.

So we are recording while we can.

And I can't say anything about my jury service as of yet. I am barred from doing so,

but I'm sure I will have thoughts to share on the process on our Patreon pod at the end of the

month. But we will see. I have not yet been impaneled, but I strongly suspect I am about to be.

So we will record when we can. Can you tell them that I am about to be. So we will record when we can.

Can you tell them that I am about to be very busy with the trade value series and that

reliability of schedule would be nice?

Honestly, it would not be the worst excuse that I heard anyone try to use to get out of this.

And my problem is that I have too much integrity, Meg, to self-eliminate.

Because when they tell you that it has to be a truly exceptional thing that you can't reschedule,

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