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Effectively Wild Episode 2030: Deadline Dilemmas and Needs

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Real Areas of Need in Baseball

There are two positions where one of these contenders projects to be the worst in baseball at this position that's the Astros at catcher. The Dodgers do not have an acute area of need now I think in reality they do obviously but that speaks to their depth right? Even all the losses they've suffered even as reduced and diminished as they are like the projections still sayYeah Dodgers are pretty good pretty much everywhere pretty solid soSo the extreme areas of of need here is center field, first base,. second place behind home run hitter Aaron Judge with a .622 OPS over the past three seasons. And then there were among those 15 teams collectively 43 positions where they projected to be at least 20th worst

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