I'm confident in you, I'm confident in you, I'm confident in you, I'm confident in a high-speed

low and welcome to episode 1041 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangras presented

by our Patreon supporters. My name is Benlin Berg and I'm a writer for The Ringer.

Join us by Jeff Sullivan of Fangras. Hello, hello. So we were just talking about whether

we had any banter, we don't have a whole lot, but I just went to Fangras and saw the

two posts that you have published since I last emailed with you a few hours ago and the

last one is called What on Earth Happened with Jic Arietta, which is a question I'm interested

in. So what on Earth Happened with Jic Arietta? If you can summarize without making people

not want to read your post completely. Well, that's impossible because it's basically

one statistical point with 800 or a thousand words written around it, which is what most

of my posts are. I hope that didn't shatter any glass for people, but the point is basically

in the early going, we always get asked what is most important in the early going. What's

actually most important is that, hey, baseball is back and that's great and everything

we do is just gravy on top of that. But if you're looking for any actual significance,

then you're looking for things that stabilize very quickly. If you're looking for meaningful

numbers, nothing stabilizes faster aside from, I guess, one person's very existence than

how fast a picture throws. I think you would agree. Fastball of a loss extends to stabilize

after a sample size of, oh, I don't know, one. So we've seen a lot of pictures generating

sample size of one or more so far. Things are a little complicated right now for those

of us who play with the numbers because it turns out velocity readings are being recorded

differently this year. This was speed readings too. That's good callback. Yeah, we can keep

that up all season. That'll be fun. That's going to be the new Lenny Harris. If you would

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