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Good morning and welcome to episode 520 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus presented by the baseballreference.com play index. I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland.com.

Join by Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus.

Howdy Ben. Howdy. How are you?

Excited last show of the week.

Indeed.

Excited that we're closer to next week's shows.

Only three more days.

So a quick update on something we talked about quite a while ago.

We discussed this exhibition series that majorly baseball players are playing in Japan after the conclusion of the season.

It's in November. This team of MLB All Stars is going to go to Japan and play five games and then another couple exhibition games.

Although as I mentioned at the time they're really all exhibition games in a sense.

And we wondered who would want to go on this journey, who would want to make this trip after the season is over to play more games.

And today we found out some of the names of the players who will be on that trip and they're pretty big names.

Robinson Kenoe, Adam Jones, Albert Pooholes and Yassiel Pueg will highlight the team which will be managed by Ron Washington

and the rest of the roster has not been announced perhaps.

Tellingly none of those players is a pitcher.

We wondered whether any pitchers would want to make this trip and continue to pitch.

So I don't know whether the fact that no pitchers were announced means that they're having a harder time getting pitchers.

But now we know.

Did you see in one of the articles about this, they mentioned some of the 2006 roster.

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