The night is gonna fall, the future's all surround you

And when you're looking at me, I want you to see it's gonna stow me

But all these lines and phrases finally are the maps of your desire

We're gonna be down on the moon

Hello and welcome to episode 1213 of effectively wild a baseball podcast from

Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrass Hello Jeff

We have a guest later in this episode. It's a guest we teased on an earlier episode

Stephen Brault, the pirate's pitcher and Pirates hit her

Because he kind of has been a hitter this year he is not struck out in his career to date

It is a historic career starting streak for pitcher without any strikeouts

And that's especially impressive in this era of many strikeouts particularly for pitchers

So I'm gonna talk to him about that and about previously being a two-way player

And he's also a podcaster and a singer he's just a fun guy

So we'll talk to him a little bit later

But we have some stuff to get to first so you and I were just joking off air before we start recording that Malik Smith is the new

Eichro the old Eichro is old and is no longer a player

He quasi retired shortly after we recorded our last episode

Do you have any Eichro remembrance that you'd care to share?

Because we talked recently about the Eichro Mariners situation and how it seemed like it had the potential to get ugly

Because we didn't really think Eichro would walk away and yet he wasn't playing well

And it was potentially going to get uncomfortable where you don't want someone's career

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