Yo, me, Mr. International, on the runway more than a fast show, you know?

This all I love like Mac, bro, but sorry I have to go one more time, yo

Me, Mr. International, on the runway more than a fast show, you know?

This all I love like Mac, bro, but sorry I have to go

I've been so busy since my life and time, and I know it's for sure

I'm in life and for you

Hello and welcome to episode 1239 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

Fandcraft presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fandcrafts. Hello!

So we are going to do an Astidio centric podcast yet again today.

I'll explain a little later how this came about, but we're going to talk to the guy who had a hand in signing

Astidio kind of cover his origin story and also some more general scouting questions.

Anything you want to discuss before we get to that?

So on Tuesday, this is before Wednesday, July 4th, on Tuesday the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Miami Marlins,

9-6. Not interesting, not many people were there, I'm not convinced anybody was there, who cares?

So a few weeks ago, maybe it was one week ago, time flies, the Rays switched Jose Alvarado

at to another position and he played first base and then he went back to pitching.

And an unusual Waxel-Hachiswap at the Rays pulled off.

Well, on Tuesday, circumstances dictated such that the Rays took a 5 run lead in the 16th inning,

they were up 9-4 in that inning, their pitcher Vidal Nuno picked up his second hit in his many played appearances.

He had an RBI single, he also got hurt, injured his hamstring while he was running.

Seems to be a thing that pitchers are doing now, Nuno, in just one, to Naka, in just two anyway.

At the bottom of the 16th inning, to protect a lead, the Tampa Bay Rays went to the bullpen and pulled out Hazus Sucray.

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