This is how it always starts.

All order falls apart.

Okay, so who put whiskey on the mix?

Things were stable yesterday.

But now they're blown away.

Oh shit, I can't let them see me.

Hello and welcome to episode 827 of Effectively Wild.

The daily podcast from baseball perspectives presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538 joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives close to him.

You know, today we're doing the Milwaukee Brewers preview.

So in the second segment, Jeff Paternaster will talk to Jack Moore of by sports and the hard well times and BPMilwaki and other places.

But before we get to that, we are talking to the author of the BPMil essay for the Brewers this year.

Who is Ryan Romano who writes for BPMilwaki and Beyond the Boxcore?

Hello Ryan.

Hi.

Thanks for being on.

So can you give us a guided tour to the Brewers off season?

Because it feels like to me that the Brewers have maybe made the most moves that were easy to overlook.

Maybe that's because they're the Brewers and people had sort of written them off for 2016 or maybe it's because no huge names really changed teams in those trades.

But if you could just sort of sum up what the Brewers were trying to do and what they accomplished in the many moves that they made, how would you do that?

Well, I'll start by saying that you're not wrong to necessarily write them off for 2016 because as they currently stand,

this is not a team that will win a great deal of games.

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