Hello! Hello, welcome to episode 69 on podcast you name later.

I am Chris Willis, and tonight I'm joined by special guest, Grant McCauley, whom I'm sure you all know from 929 the game, around the diamond, locked home braids, and of course, a host of battery power TV.

Grant does a lot of things.

He's always busy.

Grant, thank you for hopping on tonight, and I hope you're doing all right.

Yeah, happy to do it.

It's been a long time since we've sat down, and I'm sure it won't be too much longer until we sit down again.

And I say both of those jokingly because we both know the answers to those questions.

Yeah, we'll, um, new battery powered TV episode will be coming up on Friday. So I'll be sure and check that out. But, uh, now I wanted to talk a couple of things this week. We're a week

barely, uh, well, less than a week now from, uh, pitchers and catchers reporting to spring

training. But we had the release of some preseason projections this week, and very favorable to the Braves.

We had the Pocoda projections from baseball prospectus, and we had the Fangraphs playoff odds from over at Fangraphs.

You know, I was pretty blown away by these things.

Picota has the Braves at 100,

100 wins, 99.8% chance to make the playoffs, 18.7% to win the World Series, which is the highest

odds or highest chance of anybody else. The Dodgers are second at 17.1%.

Piccota's always been kind of historically low on the Braves.

You know, so it was a little bit surprising when I saw this come out.

They've got them running away within El East again.

I don't think it's surprising that we're seeing, we're seeing favorable projections this time.

But did you know, what did you think about those when you saw them come

out? No, I mean, it really shouldn't be surprising. I mean, projections are what they are. And I think

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