I never had to bow to you when we began

No, I can play what you, but you're command

And if you say nothing, then ask something

I'll understand

We'll be together

Hello and welcome to episode 1277 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

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

ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fancrafts at Ochef.

Regular season, hello, baseball is complete, there are no more regular season games

of all the batters who batted at least 90 times, Williams Estadillo will lead

the major leagues in batting average, officially he finished at 355, 97 played

appearances, most of those at bats, because as you know, doesn't walk, doesn't strike

out, seldom hits homers, Williams Estadillo batted 355, Moody Betts, batted 346.

Christian Yehlech wound up at 326, I suppose it was possible for him to pass Estadillo

on Monday, but it would have required a very, very long baseball game with Christian Yehlech,

I guess, getting out of just going to guesstimate here, about 25 hits, I haven't done the math,

I can also say that because Estadillo reached new round numbers, we can set the

playing time minimum to a higher run number, get the hell out of here, Bravick Valera,

and your 75 played appearances, nobody cares, Estadillo, league leader in contact rate

for batters who batted at least 90 times, also for batters who batted at least 80 times

so Valera has gone, also I can now say, as a matter of fact, the contact rate that was

shown, that's been shown on fan graphs, and the contact rate that you look up on baseball

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