Father do you hear me? Do you know me? Do you even care?

What will you say when they take my trace?

Oh my heart can't take this anymore

What will you say when you see my face?

Hello and welcome to episode 1300 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Vangrath's

presented by our Patreon supporters. I am the Lindbergh of the Ringer Joint Bad Jeff Sullivan of Vangrath's.

Looking at an NPR headline that goes quote, well that was fast. Young German speeder earns

loses license in 49 minutes. Now I have now dated this podcast record in the sun Wednesday.

I think you're all listening to this after Thanksgiving. But what do you think is the shortest

amount of time someone has spent in the major leagues? Like do you think anyone has ever been promoted

and then demoted within an hour? How would that happen? Some sort of transaction?

Other transaction? Some sort of transaction? Well there are shadow players who are called up but never actually play.

And there was a good story in the Washington Post. I think it was earlier this year but one of them that was particularly heartbreaking.

But that I guess they're at least in the majors for a day for a game even though they don't get into the game.

They are technically in the majors but they don't have a baseball reference page that says major leagues.

So I don't know has there been anyone who gets called up and then sent down immediately because something happened? Probably there's been a lot of baseball.

Yeah I wonder what it would require. Obviously we see plenty of cases of guys who get demoted AAA but then they're brought back up because somebody got hurt.

Maybe the paperwork was already filed but then they come right back. So that way we'd see all the time but the major league will end.

It would require some teams not really knowing what's going on. I think in order to promote a player and then send him right back down immediately.

But I don't know if anybody out there who works for a team or who knows a case like this, if it's even possible or not possible, just let us know and you can do so anonymously.

Sign up for anonymous at gmail.com and then you can tell us the truth. You might need the numbers in there.

The Phantom player I was remembering was Brian Mizone, I think Mizone who was called up in a game and his game was reigned out when he could have gotten into it.

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