The observant reader will notice that, though purporting to cover the entire weekend, what follows only actually mentions two of the previous four days. This has everything to do with the fact that, as previously stated, I’m not half-machine.

Friday, April 09
I was surprised to find that Major League Baseball scheduled other games on this, the day that All-Joyer Colby Lewis made his stateside return. “Sacre bleu!” is undoubtedly what you’re saying to yourself in utter disbelief. Indeed, that’s what I shouted, perhaps a little too enthusiastically, at the very public space where I first made the discovery. In any case, Marc Hulet and I both had thoughts (here and here, specifically) on Lewis’s start and were foolish enough to write them down for posterity yesterday.

Against all odds, two other pitchers distinguished themselves for other reasons, as follows.

Exhibit One: Homer Bailey

The top of the third inning of today’s Cubs-Reds game is probably the kind that Cincinnati’s front officers envisioned when they took righty Homer Bailey with the seventh overall pick in the 2004 draft.

It was during that inning when Bailey recorded whiffs on 6 of 17 pitches — all but one of which (i.e. the whiffs) came on Bailey’s four-seamer, a pitch he threw at about 93 mph for the game. Three of the aforementioned whiffs came on an excellent sequence of progerssively higher and outside-er (though always within the zone) fastballs to Aramis Ramirez*, a player who, according to our Pitch Type Values, has posted above-average run values against fastballs every year since 2004.

*You can see the third of these at about the 22-second mark in this video.

It deserves to be said that the inning wasn’t all flowers and a piece of cake for Bailey. He hit the first batter of the inning, Derrek Lee, with a first-pitch fastball; allowed Lee to take second on a wild pitch in the dirt; and conceded a run when Xavier Nady hit a wall-ball single. Still, the run aside, the life on Bailey’s fastball, and the way he managed to put it so ably by a fastball hitter, proved to make good viewing.

Exhibit Dos: Kris Medlen

With one out in the bottom of the 12th inning of Atlanta’s game at San Francisco, Kris Medlen threw a sort of pitch to Travis Ishikawa that’ always a pleasure to witness — namely, a sort of two-seamer that starts inside and off the plate to a lefty but tails back in over the corner of the plate for a called strike.

The pitch — and three more, very similar ones, to righty Eli Whiteside — sent me to Medlen’s Pitchf/x profile. Here’s something interesting: 15 of the 27 pitches Medlen threw today were classified as two-seamers by Pitchf/x. This is unsurprising, as the sort of pitch that he threw to Ishikawa — with all that arm-side run — is almost always of the two-seam variety. And across three appearances this season, 42% of Medlen’s pitches have been two-seamers. Yet, a glance at last season’s numbers reveals that only 6.2% of his pitches were classified as two-seamers. Of course, this could simply be the product of a change in the GameDay algorithm — if that’s the case, so be it. It could also be sign that Medlen is making a concerted effort to feature the pitch this year. More on this story as it develops!

Sunday, April 11
If you’re all up on the Twitters, you might already know that I spent a good portion of this Pacific Northwest afternoon at PGE Park, home (at least for the remainder of the season) to the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League. In the more likely event that you’re not hanging on my every 140 characters, well, it’s still the case: today, San Diego’s Triple-A Beavers played host to Oakland affiliate the Sacramento River Cats.

These last three years or so, the Beavers — like many Triple-A clubs, frankly — have been less a magnet for high-end prospects and more a sort of purgatory for fringe ballplayers of all descriptions. The early returns on this year’s club are a little more interesting, as center fielder Luis Durango, shortstop Lance Zawadski, corner guy Craig Cooper, other corner guy Aaron Cunningham, other other corner guy Mike Baxter, catcher Dusty Ryan, and starter Will Inman — i.e. 70% of today’s starting lineup for the Beavs — are all, if not necessarily prospects, at least reasonably interesting minor leaguers on the right side of 27.

The River Cats, meanwhile, featured a lineup that included big-time prospect Chris Carter, masher Jack Cust, and giant man Michael Taylor in the 3-4-5 spots. None of them did much of anything, as Sacramento managed only two hits on the afternoon. Of note, however, was this: over his first three plate appearances, Cust saw fourteen pitches and swung at exactly zero of them. The news prompted Ken Arneson to tweet: “A’s team yawns/PA is already way lower this year.”

Episode Eighteen
In which the panel does its worst.

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Predictions That Will Be Wronger
Texas Rangers and Pitching?
The Overlord Appears
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Over the past couple weeks — and spanning multiple forms of media — Prospect Maven Marc Hulet and I have made clear our differences in re the imminent success (or lack thereof) of current Texas Ranger and citizen of the world Colby Lewis.

Put briefly, while Hulet regards Lewis as roughly the same sort of Quad-A player that he was before dominating the Japanese league these past two years, I’ve been seduced by the righty’s optimistic CHONE projection and have heralded him — on this site, to my mother, wherever — as a Person of Interest for this here season.

As such, this past Friday night’s contest between the Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners was of interest to the both of us. Exactly one hour ago, Mr. Hulet gave his reading of Lewis’s performance. Here’s mine.

Product
Results are where Lewis fared best. First and foremost, he got the win. If nothing else, that should allow for optimism, however unfounded. Moreover, Lewis allowed only nine baserunners in seven innings of work (a 1.29 WHIP for the game). If he’s on your fantasy team (as he is on mine), you’re probably pretty satisfied with his debut.

Win Probablity Added (WPA) liked Lewis’s performance, too. He led all players with a .298 WPA, barely edging out teammate Nelson Cruz, who posted a .271 on the strength of a 3-for-4 night (which included a well-struck donger). In this case, things could have gone much worse for Lewis. He loaded the bases with only one out in the seventh inning, creating the highest Leverage Index state of the night (a 2.63 mark) despite the fact that Texas held a 5-1 lead at the time.

Unfortunately for the Mariners, the batter for said base-out state was Jack Wilson, whom Lewis quickly dispatched on three pitches (called strike, foul, called strike). Ichiro followed, grounded out to second baseman Joaquin Arias (and his well-groomed moustache), and the threat was over.

Process
It’s always an interesting exercise to assess even a single pitching performance by means of at-bat results and their corresponding run values. If nothing else, it can give us a sense as to whether the pitcher in question was lucky or unlucky with regard to his batted balls, etc.

The following table includes all the possible at-bat outcomes with the corresponding Run Expectancy (RE) of each outcome. Additionally, I’ve added the number of such events conceded by Lewis and the corresponding runs allowed (or prevented, as the case my be). (Run Expectancies courtesy of StatCorner.)

Type	RE	Lewis	Lewis RE
K	-0.105	3	(0.32)
BB	0.329	4	1.32
HBP	0.345	0	0.00
LD	0.384	3	1.15
GB	0.053	7	0.37
OFB	0.046	6	0.28
IFB	-0.096	4	(0.38)
HR	1.394	0	0.00
			
TOTAL			2.42

What we see plainly here is something that I, unfortunately, intuited during the game — namely, that Lewis got somewhat lucky. Given a normal distribution of the above outcomes, we could expect Lewis to surrender somewhere in the neighborhood of two to three runs. And if we were being truly diligent, we might even consider accounting for “partial” home runs by removing the home run RE and adding one-ninth of a home run (so, approximately .15 runs) to each outfield fly ball, as homers occur on roughly 11% of fly balls. To do so would further push Lewis’s RE for his seven innings toward the three-run mark.

Lewis’s greatest weakness is made clear by this table: the walk-to-strikeout ratio. Last year in Japan, Lewis recorded 186 strikeouts against only 19 walks in 176.1 innings. His 2008 season was pretty similar. Lewis is now already 20% of the way to his 2009 walk total after just seven innings.

Unfortunately for me — and for everyone else who’s hopped aboard the Colby Lewis bandwagon — Lewis’s K:BB from this first game much more resembles the 1.25 mark he posted through his first 217.1 Major League innings.

Pitchf/x
I’m far from what you’d call an expert of the ol’ Pitch/f/x, but I also recognize the importance of the information it can provide to us. Anyway, so long as the Pitchf/x Tool over at Brooks Baseball isn’t lying, Lewis only recorded a grand total of nine whiffs in his seven innings of work. That total includes only two whiffs from a total of 33 sliders/curves, at least one of which will have to serve as a reliable out-pitch if Lewis hopes to stay in the rotation.

Conclusions
All in all, while Lewis showed things like pluck and want-to in his seven-inning return to American baseball, he showed less in the way of groundball- and/or strikeout-inducing stuff. Yes, it’s one start, and, yes, the infield flies are nice, but Hulet could be righter than I’d care to admit if Lewis’s next couple of starts resemble this one.

Episode Seventeen
In which the panel is largely Canadian.

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Catcher, First, and Third: Informations!
Closer Sell-By Dates
Unrelenting Kindness
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What follows represents some assorted observations from the first four days of our new season. Note that this effort, in no way, represents an attempt on my part to summarize or encapsulate the action thus far. Rather, my intention is merely to — from one curious fan to another — to report those findings as might be of some interest.

Monday, April 05
Turns out, moderating a sweet live chat — while clearly the thrill of a lifetime — doesn’t allow so much for the ol’ baseball-watching. Fortunately, I got my head out of the netbook long enough to behold Sergio Romo’s majestic slidepiece in his appearance versus Houston. It’s an incredible pitch, featuring close to 10 inches of glove-side movement, relative to a league-average mark of about 2.5 inches. Nor is this merely a product of an unusual release point, as Romo induces about 2 more inches of arm-side movement on his four-seamer (8 inches versus 6) than league average. All in all, with Romo, you’re getting close to 20 inches of horizontal differential between the fastball and slider. His whiff rate of 13.4% isn’t exactly Wuertzian (26.2% last season on the slider), but it doesn’t prevent Romo’s out-pitch from representing something of a spectacle.

Also of note is how Kyle Blanks jacked a terrific donger into the friscalating dusklight of an Arizona sky. During Triple-A Portland Beavers Media Day last year, I shook his (i.e. Blanks’s) hand. It was kinda like meeting Paul Bunyan. If Paul Bunyan had an afro, I mean.

Tuesday, April 06
This episode of I, Claudia’s took place less amidst the drunken revelry of my area sports bar and more in the confines of a local community college, where I watched games during a pastime commonly referred to as “office hours.” Utilizing the “mosaic” feature on MLB.TV, I was able to do something kinda smart — namely, to watch three games simultaneously while listening to a fourth, Colorado at Milwaukee, via the Brewers flagship station, WTMJ.

In case you didn’t know, Bob Uecker is officially the Voice of the Brewers, and he’s the sort of person you might refer to as a “wise guy.” Here, for example, are three notable quotables from the first two innings of the game:

1. “I was there just in case Mark dropped any loose change.” (On why he attended a fundraiser at an area YMCA with Brewers owner Mark Attanasio.)

2. “One time I grounded into an unassisted double play to the shortstop. He tagged second base, then ran to first and got me, too.” (On his running ability as a player.)

3. “When you listen to Brewers baseball, you hear a lot of stuff that’s not talked about, or even thought of yet.” (From a rather protracted, and largely fictional, account of how Tommy John Surgery got its name.)

In other news, would you care to guess who was manning right field for San Francisco today? I’ll tell you: Andres Torres. Here’s something you may not know about Torres: CHONE projects him for 2.0 WAR in only 87 games and 321 plate appearances this season, largely on the strength of a 7.8 UZR in center. Actual starting center fielder Aaron Rowand is projected at 1.4 WAR in 137/549. The latter is owed more than $36MM through 2012. The former? He doesn’t even have three years of service time yet. To be fair, Torres’s recent success represents something of a renaissance for the journeyman. Of the 32-year-old, our own Dave Cameron says: “He was terrible most of his career. Being good is a recent development that everyone is still trying to figure out.” Still, it’ll be nice to see what sort of production he, uh, produces this year.

Wednesday, April 07
Here’s an interesting sequence in Cincinnati. It’s the top of the third, and, with one out, Johnny Cueto strikes out Albert Pujols exclusively on called strikes. The next batter, Matt Holliday, fists — yes, I said “fists” — he fists a ball that dribbles just to Cueto’s left. First baseman Joey Votto fields it and flips to Cueto, but the latter has some trouble with his footwork, whiffs on Votto’s toss, and is unable to record the out. During the next plate appearance, Cueto appears unsettled, perhaps even as though he’s tweaked a hammy — a fact about which the Cardinals broadcast team makes note. A quick pan to Dusty Baker and pitching coach Bryan Price reveals the two discussing how much they like toothpicks — whether it’s a lot, or super a lot.. Holliday steals second and Rasmus walks. After whiffing at a slider, the next better, Ryan Ludwick, hits a grounder between third baseman Scott Rolen and shortstop Orlando Cabrera. I’d be tempted to call it a “seeing-eye single,” but I feel like that might do a grave injustice to the abstract concept of sight. After the ball gets by Rolen and ricochets off Cabrera’s glove, Holliday scores.

A quick shot of Johnny Cueto appears to catch the young pitcher mouthing the phrase “There’s no place like home.” Only, you know, in Spanish.

Thursday, April 08
I’m telling the truth and nothing but the truth when I say that FanGraphs contributor and known math snob Jack Moore is posting about C.J. Wilson’s dominant Thursday start exactly one hour from now. I’m telling a lie when I say it’s because I ordered him to do it at knifepoint.

Win some, lose some, America. Win some, lose some.

One of the questions I think FanGraphs is always asking, whether implicitly or explicitly, is “How can we make baseball writing better?” Nor is this a quality native only to the present site. Indeed, better blogs everywhere are interested in finding creative solutions to this problem. Unconstrained by considerations such as physical space or “making any money, whatsoever,” we, the blogerati, are given space to experiment. If we fail, we fail. “Big whoop,” as my grandmother would say. If we succeed, eureka!, the face of baseballing journalism is forever changed.

Those are pretty sweet terms under which to work.

A site like Deadspin, for example — however one feels about its frequent sojourns into the immodest — has distinguished itself by exploring the advantages that electronic media have over print media. (The pictures of Greg Oden freaking on hot coeds certainly haven’t hurt, either.) The internet is full of other such examples, where a group or individual, having the will/way, provides content that traditional media have neglected. (The internet is also full, it should be said, of people freaking on hot coeds.)

One of the forms native to the interweb is the live chat, and it’s this form that found its way to these electronic pages for Opening Day. The event compelled this author to ask a couple, very basic, questions about the chat form.

Here they are.

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Episode Sixteen
In which the panel passes through the looking glass.

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Fantasy Is Reality
Thinking Stupid
Getting Rauchy
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On What Is This Thing

Last September, when I was only about a half or three-quarters as big a deal as I am now, I wrote a piece for Hardball Times called “I, Claudia’s.” Claudia’s, for the 99.5% of readers who have no way of knowing, is a sports bar near where I live in Portland, Ore. (Furthermore, I, Cladius is a novel/BBC TV series about the Roman Emperor Claudius). I go there (i.e. Claudia’s) to watch baseball with some frequency, on account of (a) I don’t have much in the way of TVs, and (b) they have, like, 700 of them.

So, like I’m saying, I got the revolutionary idea last September to combine my baseball watching with my baseball writing. (Shocking, no?) I’m quoting myself when I say:

While previously I’ve only ever gone to Claudia’s in my capacity as amateur layabout, I got to figuring during one of my recent sojourns: on account of I’m being paid all this money by Hardball Times anyway, wouldn’t it be sporting of me to jot down some of my observations about the games I was watching?

Sure, was my answer to myself.

Essentially my idea for the piece was to write something like Craig Calcaterra’s “And That Happened” except less complete, less informative, less factual, and less funny. On the plus side, it’d be a tiny bit shorter*.

*Seriously, I have no idea how he does it. I mean, I get that there’re things like the Extra Innings package and the internet and everything, but Calcaterra is a machine. If I have one complaint about “And That Happened,” it’s that it forces me to imagine him doing all that work. That’s not the sort of thing I’d wish upon anyone — let alone il mio paesano.

On account of (a) there was a real-live baseball game last night, (b) I watched said game at Claudia’s, (c) we’ve been discussing the art of game reporting of late in these very electronic pages, and (d) there’s no time like the present, I figured I might dust off the project I’d started last summer and submit to the readership what I consider to be a first step towards a competent game report.

In short, that’s what is this thing.

On Chan Ho Park

Chan Ho Park posted the lowest WPA of any player in last night’s contest (-.316). He was also responsible for conceding the largest single WPA swing of the game (.309) on Dustin Pedroia’s game-tying two-run homer with one out in the seventh — this after not allowing even one home run in relief all last season (merci buckets, Jeff Sullivan).

In short, the results weren’t so hot.

Having said that, I think Park actually put together one of the more memorable — if not absolutely best — pitching sequences of the night. Just after giving up a seventh-inning single to Marco Scutaro — and right before giving up the aforementioned dongpiece to Little Dustin Pedroia — Park started speed merchant Jacoby Ellsbury off with a low and inside pitch that resists description. While MLB GameDay classified said pitch as a four-seam fastball, I’m suspicious. Park’s four-seamer was around 90-92 mph on the night with about 7-9 inches of arm-side run and 10-12 inches of “rise” (relative to a ball thrown with no spin, that is). This pitch, at which Ellsbury swung and missed pretty badly, was 87.5 mph with an inch of glove-side movement and about 10 inches of rise.

Was it a slider, maybe? That’s a question I asked myself, certainly, and it’s a possibility, except the average rise of Park’s slider on the night was 5.58 inches, while this particular pitch demonstrated similar rise to Park’s fastball.

Whatever the exact classification, it was an excellent pitch, generating the only whiff of the 22 pitches that Park threw on the night.

Ellsbury fouled off the next pitch, a high fastball at about 93 mph, and then came the strikeout pitch. While GameDay classifies the third pitch (a fastball at 92 mph) as having only 8.77 inches of arm-side run — hardly exceptional relative to Park’s other fastballs — it was this movement, combined with the placement just on the inside corner, that caused Ellsbury to take the pitch for strike three.

All in all, it was the ideal sequence for Park: he induced swings on two pitches out of the zone (the whiff and then the foul), and then got the K on a deftly placed, and adequately moving, fastball.

Tweets of the Game

In addition to many competent live chats that occurred during last night’s game, the Twitters were absolutely abuzz with enthusiastic baseball nerds. On account of I’m a Twitter novice and have subscribed neither as far, nor as wide, as some of my fellow baseball nerd friends, it’s possible that the scope of my reading is too narrow.

In any case, here are five choice comments from the Twitterverse during last night’s game:

From devil_fingers (on the occasion of Marco Scutaro fielding a ball cleanly): Um, actually it’s exactly average. BOOYAH! RT @EricSeidman: Scutaro’s UZR is off the charts.

From devil_fingers (on the occasion of Matt Klaassen looking the mirror): I wish. RT @EricSeidman: @devil_fingers Your face is exactly average.

From TylerKepner (on the occasion of Scott Schoenweis relieving Josh Beckett): I love how Scott Schoeneweis has played for seven teams across 12 seasons and never worn any number besides 60.

From zvsanders (on the occasion of the Yankee left fielder not throwing the ball away): Gardner didn’t fail that time! #progress

From jonahkeri (on the occasion of Kevin Youkilis, a Jewish person, dominating the game): And on Easter, a Member of the Tribe shall lead them.

Note: This article is hella interactive. If you have a sec, please do answer the questions at the bottom.

Though it seems hard to imagine, reports suggest that actual, real-live baseball games will commence this Sunday. Starting that day and proceeding through September — with only a brief, kinda lame interlude in July — there will be games every frigging day.

One project that I’d like to undertake this season — very likely in conjunction with other members of Team FanGraphs — is the provision of a semi-regular, nerd-approved game report that is both (a) satisfying to a readership more or less comfortable with the metrics we host here at the site and (b) entertaining to such a degree that, were one to have already seen the game in question, the report would still be worth a damn.

What might constitute the ideal game report is something I’ve considered a little bit. I’ll get to that in a second.

First, let’s consider the flaws of the traditional game report. I’m quoting myself when I say that

As of now, mostly what’s available is the pyramid style of game recap, such as the AP and other news outlets provide, which is a document composed in such a way as to (1) create a more or less fictional narrative for a baseball game, (2) give undue emphasis to emotional factors and less to a combination of skill and chance, (3) become continually less important (and less interesting) as it grows in length and (4) create the impression that baseball is the most boring thing that has ever happened to the world (including the supposedly fun Playmobil-brand toys I was given occasionally as a child).

We don’t have to go very far to find an example of game recaps behaving badly. In fact, if one were to just — I don’t know — look at the very first game listed at Yahoo!’s MLB page yesterday, that’d probably be good enough. Were one to do that, one would find a recap of the Boston/Baltimore game written by David Ginsburg of the Associated Press that begins like so:

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP)—The Boston Red Sox have had enough of spring training.

They figure that if Victor Martinez is going to hit two homers and drive in six runs, and if Jon Lester is going to throw seven innings of three-hit ball, it might as well happen in a regular-season game.

With Boston’s powerful battery leading the way, the Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 14-6 Wednesday.

Let’s be clear: this is by no means the worst case scenario of the genre. There’s no discussion of a player willing his team to victory by means of sheer Want To. And, at the very least, Ginsburg makes an attempt at playfulness, which, as a sentient being, is something I appreciate.

Even so, the narrative is strained and rests on a premise (i.e. the Red Sox should “save up” runs) that is both tired and impossible. Having played baseball even once, I recognize that a batter is not able to defer his home runs to such a base/out/score state as when it might have greater impact.

I will happily concede that, when content must be produced, then the quality of that content will suffer predictably. Nor do I intend to suggest that David Ginsburg is a bad writer or anything less than an A1 Guy. But the odds are stacked against him from the beginning. For, when the author must repeat, in prose, events that are just as easily apprehended by reading a play log — and when said author must then shoehorn those events into something like a “story” — the project is doomed from the start.

The advantage of writing for FanGraphs is that we’re constrained by nothing except the ominous presence of Dark Overlord David Appelman. Provided we don’t incur his wrath deliberately, he’s pretty flexible on what content we choose to provide. Also fortunate is that our readership is generally sharp and unafraid of change. As such, we authors needn’t adhere to outdated forms. If a game is booooooring, there’s no need on the part of any author here to pretend differently. If a game really knocks our black, over-the-calf work socks off, that’s totally legit. Finally, if the author wants to shout to the world that Colby Lewis is the Cy Young of his heart, he can do that, too.

So what might make for an ideal game report? I’m not positive I know, but I’m willing to learn. Here are some qualities that seem important:

1. Quantitative Analysis
Instead of saying “Victor Martinez helped his team a whole bunch,” we’re able to say, “Victor Martinez was worth about 15% of a win today.” We can also insert game graphs and (yes!) Pitchf/x info into our reports.

2. Observational Analysis
Last playoffs, during one of the Angel playoff games for which I was going to write a report, Marc Hulet emailed the following:

Not sure if you’re watching the Angels game today or not… but I think Kazmir was tipping his pitches with runners on second base. If you can go back and watch it, his glove is open to the second-base runner when he’s in the stretch… I could clearly see his grip on every pitch. It also looked like both Pedroia and especially Victor Martinez knew what was coming in the third inning. Martinez took two very big rips on fastballs and then tailored his swing for the off-speed pitch that he drove at the wall.

If I were a smarter person, I’d have copied and pasted that email and put it into my recap of the game.

3. An Actual, Human Voice
The game report, as it exists in your morning newspaper, is written so as to appear authorless. In fact, it might someday actually be authorless. But why is that good? I watch baseball games to make my life better. I’d like to read a report by someone who does the same.

1. What are the necessary components of an ideal game report? What might make a game report eminently readable?

2. Are there people (bloggers, for example) writing game reports of which you already approve? Where on the interweb could an enterprising young man find these?

3. Do you like the idea of a standard game report (i.e. a template used by multiple authors) here at FanGraphs? Or would you prefer for the individual author to use his discretion when reporting on a game?

Episode Fifiteen
In which the panel zigs when you zag.

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Mark Shapiro and the Minor Leagues
The Oft-Injured Mets
The Team-Specific Blog, or Ars Blogica
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