Don't you think I know You're only trying to save yourself

Don't you think I know You're only trying to save yourself

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Hello and welcome to episode 1552 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangras presented

by our Patreon supporters, I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangras.

Hello, I got a couple meaningless things to talk about, I don't know whether you do.

Hopefully that every single podcast, yeah I mean more meaningless than usual.

Hopefully the rest of the episode will be slightly less meaningless if not meaningful.

But a couple just running themes of Effectively Wild that I wanted to mention.

Last year Sam and I talked about something that he dubbed the No Played Appearance Pinch

Hitter.

He wrote an article about this last May and I think maybe did a stat segment on it on the

podcast and he was chronicling how this was an endangered species in baseball.

This is the Pinch Hitter who gets announced and then the opposing manager goes to the bullpen

again to counter that pinch hitter and then that pinch hitter is in turn pinch hit four.

And Sam was noting that this doesn't happen nearly as often as it used to because benches

are tiny and bullpen are huge and it's rare that managers have enough bench bats to play

with that they will sacrifice to in essentially one move.

So this was dying out but I think we may have talked about hitters who made their Major League

debuts as a No Played Appearance Pinch Hitter.

And there was one over the weekend as Michael Claire Chronicle at MLB dot com's Cut Forrest

site, Boog Powell, the new Boog Powell, the latest Boog Powell made his big lake debut

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