You're gonna take a walk in the rain, and you're gonna get wet, I'll be dead, you're gonna eat, I'll pull the champagne and be hungry real soon, I'll be dead, I'm a source of regret, I'll be dead

Good morning, and welcome to episode 364 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseballperspectus.com, I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, how are you been?

Sleepy, just a walk in from a nap.

Hey, I was gonna say happy birthday to my dad, but by the time we publish this it won't be his birthday.

Yeah, you should probably just call him.

So do you want to talk about baseball?

Yeah, sure.

All right, this is actually going to be an all predictions episode.

Oh, boy, going back to bed.

I know you like to predict things, and these are all conditional predictions, so, you know, like, like, if the Dodger's

signed to Naka, how many games would they win? Like that would be a conditional prediction, right?

So none of these predictions will be relevant unless the conditions happen.

So it's, it's conceivable that you'll be safe.

I hope so.

So I'm just going to start shooting them at you, and I want to hear your predictions for these, okay?

Okay.

All right, if Barry Bond's signs with the Rangers to be their DH, what will he hit?

Uh, Barry Bond's turning 50 next season, this season.

Barry Bond's would hit, uh, well, Barry Bond is much smaller than he was the last time we saw him

in a uniform. Um, I, I would guess he'd hit about two, two, two hundred.

Okay, you just sticking with batting average on it.

You know, Ben Lindbergh.

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