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Good morning and welcome to episode 277 of Effectively Wild the Daily podcast from baseballperspectus.com

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh and we have a guest today. It is the Cincinnati Inquires Red's beat reporter C Trent Rose Crants

C Trent Rose Crants was recently named by deadspin readers the best of the NL sent or I guess the

best Cincinnati Red's beat writer his saving graces that he has some appreciation for advanced stats

We love him. We're happy to have him

Trent how are you? I'm fantastic and it's nice of everybody to say it's you know I will not

That those things just make me uncomfortable

But I but I've been in more uncomfortable situations

So

Can you just give us a little background? You are

You know, I don't know if you like labels, but you you know you are a person who has demonstrated a fluency foreign appreciation for

Logic and statistics of all sorts

I think a you're selling me a little too highly

I don't know that I have an understanding, but I do have an affinity

I try to have an understanding, but hopefully that's

You know, well, so the question yeah, the question is that most people who have that affinity don't end up being beat writers

They they end up you know writing about baseball, but very rarely from the insider position that that you have

How did you get to be a beat writer? Well, you know, that was always my my kind of

Thing it's funny. I always tell the story and it's

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