We love life they do and the USA.

We'll fly down to Sydney for a whole day.

All the sunny Christmas day.

Australia.

Australia.

Good morning and welcome to episode 700 of Effectively Wild,

a daily podcast from baseball perspective presented by the play index at baseball reference.com.

I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective.

Hello Sam.

Quick PSA if you are a hang up and listen listener, the sleep podcast and you should be Sam and I did a sort of segment.

Josh and Mike and Stefan asked us to fill in.

We're one of a few podcasts filling in for the regular host today.

You can go over there and listen to us talk about Jose Fernandez and Matt Moore and Tommy John surgeries.

And you should listen to hang up and listen anyway when we're not on it because it is one of our favorite podcasts and we listen every week.

So we were flattered to be asked.

So that's another place that you can find us this week.

But today we are talking to Anthony Rezkin and every now and then I like to talk to a saber matrician abroad.

We've talked to people in Cuba about how they use stats there and I was contacted by Anthony and he works for the Sydney Blue Sox of the Australian baseball league.

And he is sort of the informal director of baseball analytics and we wanted to talk to him about how he uses stats there.

How stats are used there generally. Hello Anthony.

Yeah. Thanks for having me again.

Happy to so we briefly talked about Australian baseball in episode three thirty four.

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