Must be another one.

Must be another one, she loves.

Must be another one.

Must be another one, she loves.

Hello and welcome to episode 1304 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Vandgraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Benlund Berg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vandgraphs. Hello!

So we landed one of our white whales here. We've been talking for a while about getting Alvardrick the much-traveled picture Alvardrick on the podcast.

Today we have, he will be joining us shortly.

I will also be talking to baseball prespectuses Jonathan Judge about BP's new hitting metric deserved runs created plus.

That will be after we talk to Oliver for anyone who hasn't followed recent episodes Alvardrick set a major league record this year by pitching for five major league teams.

Now I wanted to confirm something about his just being with different organizations.

So I asked Dan Hirsch, the incomparable Dan Hirsch at baseball reference, to do a search on transactions and just look for guys who have made as many team changes as Alvardrick has this year, even if they haven't actually pitched in the majors.

There is only one other player in baseball history or at least as far back as the transaction data goes that has changed NLP organizations five times in one calendar year.

And that is Andy Wilkins, Andy Wilkins who is, I guess, a first baseman who was in the majors briefly with the White Sox in 2014 and with the Brewers in 2016.

And he in 2015 so between those years, he also belonged to six organizations.

The even worse thing about Andy Wilkins, I guess, is that he didn't even pitch in the majors that year.

So he was doing what Alvardrick was doing except he wasn't even in the big leagues at all. So that's rough. Sorry about that Andy Wilkins.

So basically means he's getting less support in all of the transactions, less support for housing and just support from the front offices and everything that you need to have some soft landing and money.

So no money. Andy Wilkins, I remember I think I wrote about Andy Wilkins at some points, but Andy Wilkins never traded, never got to be part of a trade.

Likewise he was drafted twice, he was drafted by the White Sox, but then he was selected off waivers by the Blue Jays.

He was purchased by the Dodgers, he was selected off waivers by the Orioles, selected off waivers by the Mariners, selected off waivers by the Rangers, selected off waivers by the Brewers, granted free agency.

Signed as a free agent with the twins, granted free agency and signed as a free agent with the twins. And what's interesting is that that means Andy Wilkins, this year, at least in terms of the larger organizational property.

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