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Good morning and welcome to episode 379 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseballperspectus.com.

Hi, I'm Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller.

And Sam today is when our Odyssey begins, our second annual Odyssey through every team.

As we preview all 30 between now and opening day, if you were not with us when we did this last year

or when we talked about it earlier this week, we will be doing two interview segments per show,

the first with someone from baseballperspectus or loosely from baseballperspectus,

someone who wrote for the 2014 annual, and then BP's Nick Wheatley Schaller will be talking to someone else

who covers the team from outside of BP, a beat writer, a broadcaster, columnist.

So we're looking forward to this, we hope you enjoy it.

I'm excited to find out whether there are any new teams this year.

Me too, and whether there have been any team switching leagues, which was a problem for us in the past.

So later this show, Nick will speak to Evan Drelick, who is the current Houston Chronicle Astros Beat Writer.

And right now we will talk to a former Houston Chronicle Astros Beat Writer and current baseballperspectus author,

whom you know from past episodes, Zachary Levine. Hello, Zachary.

I'm just excited to hear if there's new theme music this year.

There is not a theme song, Evan Drelick.

I know that some people will miss it.

We're going to ask each of our guests to actually sing a theme song to transition to the next guest.

So be ready, be ready with your 808.

So Zachary, you wrote the Astros essay in the annual and you mentioned in there that when this,

the tear down and rebuilding began, you expected that 2014 would be when things really looked up,

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