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I wanna say goodnight

episode 1121 of Effective Wild, a baseball podcast from Fingrass presented by our supporters

on Patreon. I'm Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fingrass. Hello.

Hi, I was just talking before we started recording about how impossible it is to find playoff stats.

It's crazy. It's like I know that regular season stats are more meaningful and the things that

we use to judge players' careers and do most of our analysis of. But every October we get

in this weird spot where the things that are happening in the game are inaccessible to us all of a sudden.

It's like harder to find playoff stats for major league baseball than it is to find low level

indie ball stats or something. I don't know. There's just no designated place for this. You can't

find them on Fingrass. You can't find them at baseball perspectives. You can't find them in the

usual places. I'm scrambling and going to websites I never go to to figure out what is actually

happening in the post season. Why do we do this to ourselves? It was easier for me to look up how

often Nick Senegh had hit in like summer college leagues and it is to find a league post season

ERA. I know. Which by the way is like almost five right now. But which is here? I went to ESPN's

team stats because they have post season stats and they say the league average ERA for major league

baseball on the post season right now for starters is 8.53 which is wrong by like three and a half

runs I think I think what the page is doing is just averaging the team ERAs. So you have like

the Rockies with a 27 team ERA and the twins with an 18 team ERA and their one games are counting as

much as like the Cubs and the Nats having low ERAs and three games a piece. That's like the best

place I know how to look. So this is this is rough. I don't know. I know maybe maybe the the easiest

place to go to that has everything together is MLB.com that has the post season stats right there except

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