Don't ever change, why don't you ever change?

Oh oh oh, please don't ever change, almost by faith, almost by faith, almost by faith.

Hello and welcome to episode 1415 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast brought to you by

Fangrafts and our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rally coming to you from a hotel room in Boston and I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh.

I didn't say where I'm from, I didn't say where you're from.

Same place as always.

Fangrafts are in a blank, blank, blank, blank.

You sound slightly under the weather, I would say.

I have a summer head cold being sick in the summer is the worst.

It's just the worst but it could be worse. This cold could have hit last week during the deadline and it didn't.

So it's a lot like college where I would get sick immediately after finals but my body would have the good sense to keep it together until those were done.

Yeah. Well it did hit just in time for Saber seminar and for us to do a live episode of this podcast which you will all hear early next week if you're not in attendance at Saber seminar.

But flying across the country is famously beneficial for colds and illness.

Yeah. It wasn't so bad. It was a more pleasant flying experience than my trip to Cleveland. Let's put it that way.

Cold and all. So you know, it'll be fine. I sound more and more like myself with each passing day so if I saturday I might be totally back to normal.

Yeah. Well you will not have to talk as much as you do in some episodes on this episode because we will be talking to our pal Lindsey Adler who covers the Yankees and the Yankees have won nine consecutive games.

They have the best winning percentage in baseball and they are doing it in just the weirdest way just the strangest season and we're going to ask Lindsey all about that.

But a few things before we bring her on first someone posted a fun fact that was on the Tigers broadcast I believe and it was tweeted by bless you boys the espionation Tigers blog and I think I saw it in our Facebook group.

This is an alleged fun fact about Travis to merit the Tigers rookie and here we are count the qualifiers first player with six plus walks and two plus triples in first place.

So we have three triples in first eight career games since spike Owen with 1983.

Anytime you can be in the company of spike Owen in the 1983 Mariners that speaks well view six plus walks and two plus triples in first eight career games.

Wow. Yeah. It's it's a lot of qualifiers and it's not the most impressive name to be associated with no offense to spike Owen.

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