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Hello and welcome to episode 815 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball perspective.

Presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. I am Ben Lindbergh of 538 joined by Sam Miller of baseball

perspective. Hello Sam. Yo. And today we are previewing our preview series. So our fourth annual

30 team podcast season preview series starts tomorrow with the Philadelphia Phillies and it's gonna

work roughly the same way as it's worked the last three years. Sam and I are going to interview the

author of the BP annual essay for each team. We're going in order of Dakota projected wind

totals from worst to first, which is why we're starting with the Phillies. And if we stay on that

schedule and continue to do our regular email shows on Wednesday, which we will, then we should

wrap up on April 1st, which is the Friday before opening day. So in the past, we have had

helpers with this series. We've had a second segment in each show where someone from baseball

perspective interviews someone who covers the team in question. And this year we are getting

assistance from Jeff Paternostro and George Bissell. And so they are joining us here today. We

thought this would be a way for the listeners to get to know them a little bit because they're

going to be hearing a bunch of them in the next several weeks. So hello, George. Hey Ben.

Hey, Sam. Thanks for having me on. We are happy to. George is a fantasy writer at baseball

perspective. If you listen to the BP fantasy podcasts, you know him. He's on. There is no

offseason and flags five forever. And Jeff Paternostro. Hello, Jeff. Hello again. And Jeff writes

primarily about prospects at baseball perspective. He also writes about the meds at Amazon Avenue

and does the podcast there at Mason Avenue audio. And he's been on the podcast before. So Jeff

is going to take the NL teams and George is going to take the A L teams and they've already gotten

started scheduling and doing some interviews. And we are really happy to have them. So thank you,

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