And now I'm down in Texas

And got one thing down

I'm so lonely for a baby

So I'm tired of wasting my time

Baby, don't blame me cause I tried

But he don't love it so much

Going on three rides

Low and welcome to episode 1274 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from Vangrass

Presented by our patreon supporters. I am Ben Bloomberg of the ringers joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vangrass

Hello Williams asked to do had another pretty good weekend setting a minimum of 70 played appearances in Major League Baseball

There are 479 players who have added at least 70 times Williams asked to do continues to rank in first place and

Strikeout rate lowest to strikeout right I should say 2.7% of the time he struck out twice in 73 played appearances 3 home runs 7 runs 15 RBI

It's about 338 slacking 521 is the lowest strikeout rate in baseball

Lewiski Yorme is still hanging tight at 4.1% so he needs to strike out a few times so that

Asked you can get a little bit more room but otherwise there's no one closer than 7.2%

Andrew and Simmons in that sort of Simmons, Joe Panic, Michael Brantley area where there are normally some players hanging out

Astadio has shown up on the top 30 in WRC plus so far now the unfortunate news is that his contact rate has dropped from second to third

He's behind the god damn bravic Valera and also Lewiski Yorme who has taken the lead of 4.10% of 1% point

That's not but I will say if we can just deviate a little bit we'll give acid you another week to play and he will continue to not strike out

But can I say one more thing? Bravic Valera in an incredibly selfish act jammed his finger into Gary Sanchez's shin guard on a slide into home plate

Fractured the second metacarpal of his left index finger obviously intentionally so that he could sit at the top of that

Contact rate leaderboard for the end of the season. This is like being the batting title leader and sitting out the last few days of the season

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