Pull me on a pedestal, and I'll let you disappoint me

Tell me all the steps you know I promised to explore you

Give me all your money, and I'll make tomorrow go behind me

I think you're the judge, and I'll advise you to marry God

Pull me on a pedestal, and I'll let you disappoint me

Hello and welcome to episode 1051 of Effectively Wild, a fan graph's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters and by Ben and I

I am, I just Sullivan, I write fan graphs, I am talking as always you've been Lindbergh of the Ring or Hill of Ben

Hello, how are you doing? I'm doing alright, but not as well as Jeff Manship

Subject of former Effectively Wild banter, and I was just looking at his stats which someone posted in the Facebook group because we were talking on the last episode about the quality of Korean baseball

And hey, maybe it's better than everyone thought

Well, Jeff Manship in his first season over there has joined the rotation of Eric Thames' former team

Through five starts he has a 1.72 ERA and a 0.99 Whip

He was of course a what mediocre reliever, I guess you could say in the majors

He at least so far has been a highly effective starter which is nice

I wish him well seemed like a good guy, I talked to him, he was excited to go over there

So that's great, everyone's happy, but if he continues to pitch that well

That will not be the best reflection on the KPO's talent level

However, on his same pitching staff, well I guess he does have a better ERA than fellow former Major Lier Eric Hacker

Who has started four times, he has a 2-3-1 ERA leading the team, leaving the team in hitting this year is one bold face player

Xavier Scruggs, do you remember Xavier Scruggs? I kind of agree

I guess he's better than 100 times, he has hits in 25 of those times, many of those hits have been hard

He has an OPS of 1.159, which is positively famed Ian

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