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hello and welcome to episode eighth thirty four of effectively wild the dali podcast

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

I am Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives.

Hello, howdy.

Today we're doing our White Tucks preview podcast.

So later in the show, George Bissle will talk to Dan Hayes, who covers the White Tucks for CSN Chicago.

But we are talking to the author of the BPNUAL essay for the White Tucks and a long time

of baseballperspectus.com writer, Arjan Derson.

Hello, Arjan.

Hey, all.

So as you detailed in your essay, the White Tucks have a position player problem, or at least they

have had one.

They've had trouble developing them.

They've had trouble having them on the 2015 team, which was very short on offense and

position players.

Can you kind of go over the history of the White Tucks not developing good hitters?

Yeah, sure.

Basically dates back, I would say, more than a decade.

And a statistic that even falling of a beliefy's perspective in turn now, but the cat

bird seat put out there was the Gordon Beckham as the most wins-and-won replacement player

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