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Good morning. It is a New Week and a new episode, episode 29 of effectively wild.

The Daily Baseball Prospectus podcast, you are either on your work or at work and thrilled to be at work or on your work,

on your way to work because you have a new episode of us to listen to. I am Ben Lindbergh in

New York, New York, and as usual, in Long Beach, in his car with the door open, Sam Miller. How

are you Sam? How was your weekend? It was great. I'm energized by how chirpy you are. Yeah.

Well, I was outside about this weekend and by the pool? Not by the pool, but I went bike riding

in the sun for hours, and it was very nice, although I am in considerable discomfort now.

Were you bike riding in Manhattan? Yeah, I was, over by the river, and I won't go into too much

detail, but I'm recording this podcast standing up. And that is all I'll say about that subject.

All right. We are, I think, going to talk about probably the biggest news of this weekend.

Joe Saunders. Right. What is your topic today? My topic is actually the Red Sox.

Okay. In the fillings. All right. And my topic is Roger Clements. Oh, wow. Okay.

So my question is actually, it's about the Red Sox. It's also about the Phillies, who were both

very good teams last year. The Phillies won 102 games. The Red Sox 190. They are both teams that we

have become accustomed to being very good and making the playoffs virtually every year. And both

are lousy this year. And I just wanted to find out whether you think either one is going to be

a contender in 2013. Off the top of my head, I would say probably not. Not that they will be awful,

but I don't think I see that. I guess, I mean, I picked the Red Sox to be really, really good

every year. And I've been wrong a lot about that lately. I guess if it didn't work out this season,

now they just traded their whole team. Obviously, I mean, it's at least likely that they'll have

better health in the future. But I don't know. I don't see them being as good as the Yankees

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