That's cold, sorry, go!

Good morning and welcome to episode 73 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

prospectus daily podcast in New York where the waters have receded at least

in my area and Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach, California, in the Honda Fit.

It is similar. Good evening Sam, or good morning Sam.

Hi Ben.

We have to do an errors in omissions segment because most of you may not believe

this but occasionally we will make a factual mistake.

And the day that we chose to set up a podcast email address which is

podcast at baseballperspectus.com was also the day that we made a very

silly and obvious mistake. So we received several emails and I would say about

half of them were about the silly mistake that we made and that mistake was

forgetting that the Astros were moving to the AL West next season.

When we were doing our preseason picks, speaking for myself at least, I immediately

went to look at the 2012 standings when you told me that we were going to

be predicting next season's winners and losers and that's how I made that silly

mistake.

And speaking for myself, I actually still think that the Astros could finish

in last place in the NL Central. I think they are that bad.

So I'm going to stick with my prediction but now that my memory has been

jarged, I'm also going to pick the Astros to finish first in the AL West.

Okay, so when we review the predictions as we said we would, you have

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