Good morning and welcome to episode 115 of Effectively Wild, the Baseball

Prospectus Daily Podcast. Yeah, thank you for joining me. I am Ben Lindbergh in New York,

and with me and very happy to be with me is Sam Miller in Long Beach, California.

Who sounds awful? I've been talking to you for a few minutes and I already want to go to the doctor

or get a flu shot or something. I don't think I've ever heard you pronounce the D in your name,

and I've never pronounced the D in your name. Yeah, I don't that was weird. Something strange happened

while I was seeing my name, and I noticed it at the time. So yes, you're correct. There is a

deadness in my body right now, and I'm trying to get rid of it before it kills me completely,

but yes, quite sick. Everybody's quite sick. We're all quite sick. The world is sick. My

household is sick. Well, we are going to try to get through this before you collapse,

and it's a listener email show, so we have listening email to answer. We're going to do maybe

four or so, and I'm going to start by reading them now while you blow your nose or something.

So the first question is from Matt in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Matt says, when we look back at

player statistics for Hall of Fame posterity purposes, we account for things like disadvantageous

ballpark, extenuating non-baseball factors, military racism, etc. Should we also credit players

for poor management due to what was not known at the time? For example, Oral Hershizer was crazy

overworked in the late 80s because that's what you did back then. As a result, his numbers aren't

what they could have been, but really he was just playing by the rules of the time, which didn't

include things like picture abuse points, etc. Within that realm, he was extremely successful.

What he was being asked to do was only going to last for so long without Boeing a rotator cuffed.

Should we add to his legacy for this in the same way we would a pitcher who put up a good not great

numbers in a great hitters park or something like that? What do you say? I thought that's interesting.

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