And now you've changed your mind

I see no reason to change my mind

Giving me the same old line

You hurt me then

Your back again

Hello and welcome to episode 828 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 looks and hey pal

Hi, we are talking about the Padres today. It's the San Diego Padres preview podcast later in the show

Jeff Paternostro will be talking to Corey Brock who covers the Padres for MLB calm

But we are talking to this year's BP annual essay author for the Padres Michael Claire. Hello, Michael. Hey guys. How are you?

All right, Michael writes for MLB comms cut for site, which is excellent

So you wrote about the Padres and we all know

2015 didn't really go so well as you

Chronicle in your essay though. It wasn't just the things that people thought might not go so well

It was also everything else. Yeah, it was

It was shocking like when I sat down to put it together

You know, I was like excited. I was like oh my god. Oh, these moves. Let's let's investigate this

Let's see what happened and as I looked at like every single one it was not only a failure

But it was a spectacular one that you couldn't even see so you know bedding

Low on will middle Brooks and he can't hit and can't field. Okay, expected maybe but watching James Shields give up

33 home runs

The most since the Padres have been in pet co that probably was a little unexpected

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