Hello and welcome to episode 1095 of Effectively.

While they fan侧refts baseball podcast, brought to you by our Patreon supporters and by Ben and myself.

I am Jeff Selvin, a fan侧refts joined as always by Ben Lindbergh, currently not in a live podcast form.

Again, so hello Ben, how are you doing? Not seeing you in person.

Hello, I am doing well, although I will see you in person soon because just a couple days I'm going to the

West Coast and you stayed with me. I will be staying with you. It's like a home away series and we'll be

doing our eclipse event on August 21st. So I'm looking forward to that. I cannot promise that you will be

joined by the world's greatest small dog. Unfortunately, you have said small dog, you will have to say goodbye to it

when you fly out. But maybe we can find a dog in the neighborhood and you can cuddle it.

So on this episode, we will be joined for a while by Ken Rosenthal, who I don't need to tell you who he is,

or where he works because everybody already knows Ken Rosenthal. We're delighted to have him.

He was a he stuck around for even longer than we thought he might be able to. But before we get to that,

I just wanted to bring up one thing. I don't know if you have anything you'd like to bring up. But

Carter Caps is back. He is back in the major leagues and he's bad. Or he at least was bad. And I know at a

deadspin Emma Batchleary wrote a little bit about Carter Caps, I guess, because I'm on this

pseudovication she was able to get there before me. Damn her, but I will get a chance to write about

Carter Caps soon. I'm sure he has appeared in two games of the Bodreys. He's faced 12 batters and

he's allowed five runs, which is too many runs to have allowed. I will say that when Caps last pitched

in 2015, he pitched in 30 games and he also allowed five runs. So unless his next 28 appearances are

scoreless, I think we can say that he's worse and very, very conspicuously. The last time Caps was in

the major leagues, he was throwing about 98 miles per hour in. Now he's throwing about 93. So something

is going on with Carter Caps. His delivery looks like it has been modified a little bit in that

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