When it's gonna be the future soon, I won't always be this way

When the things that may be weak and strange, get engineered away

It's gonna be the future soon, I've never seen it quite so clear

When my heart is breaking, I can close my eyes, it's already here

Good morning, and welcome to episode 401 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast

From Baseball Prospectus, presented by the baseballreference.com Playindex

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller, and no one else

because we're doing a listener email show

So let's do that

Okay

You ready for some coffee?

Ready

Am I reading the questions today?

Yeah, probably a bad idea

All right, so let me see, where should I begin?

Let's start with Chris, because you are my expert on this topic

and so you're gonna end up talking about it

That worries me, whenever you start something like that, I'm worried

because I don't consider myself an expert on anything

Chris writes about, well, the buildup to the question is about Carlos Carey's size

and whether he'll end up moving off shortstop

The question is really, enter MLBAM's new defensive tracking system

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