Hello and welcome to episode 1379 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangress,

presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lembert of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN,

Hello Sam. How's it going? I take a little victory lap at the expense of someone else's

pain, so I was talking to Michael Bavan on the Ringer Mopee show yesterday, and we were talking

about Robinson Keno, who's come under fire for his most recent lack of hustle, and I had a

stirring defense of Robinson Keno, and I went back to my old article from the BP days that I'm sure

we've talked about on this podcast, if that Robinson Keno's hustle, and whether he actually

costs his team anything, and whether it makes sense in the long run for him not to hustle,

because it preserves his health, and maybe his contributed to his durability. So I made my case,

I suggested that Robinson Keno has been better off, has been more valuable to himself and his

teams over the long haul, just because he doesn't bust it on every ground ball at first,

just to recap that research I did, which was pre-statcast, but I estimated based on where he

hits the ball, basically comparing to other left-handed hitters, that he costs himself like four

singles a year, or something in field hits a year, that is worth a certain amount of runs,

but not as many runs as it would cost him to miss even like a week during one of his good seasons,

because he's a Hall of Fame Calibur player, and the only two times he's been on the injured

list in his career, except for when he got hit by a pitch, is running out balls and rounding

first and running hard to second, and he's strained a quad one time and a hamstring one time,

so he did that once in 2006, and then not again, he was not injured seriously again until 2017,

when it happened again. So I suggested that he's actually maximizing his value, and today the very

day after we had that long conversation, he ran hard to first, and he has pulled a hamstring,

and he had to be removed from the game, and it sounds like something that could possibly cost

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