On a tea rack, leave my head, keep my head that you don't tie anything for age

Get you with a lumbar, take your best friend, hold it, get you with a ball of faith

Baby, follow on the smack, baby

Hello and welcome to episode 1573 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast

about to be fired. Patreon supporters, I'm Meg Rally of Fan-graphs and I am joined as

always by Ben Lumberger of the Ring of Ben, how are you?

Oh, I've been mourning a little bit. We'll talk about why in just a moment.

Yeah, we'll talk about why in a moment we'll also be joined later in this episode by Ben Martins,

who's the Mariners Senior Director of Productions, who's going to answer all of our burning questions

about the soundboard and the fake crowd sound and the seat fleet as the Mariners have dubbed

their crowd of cardboard cutout fans, so we will be joined by him a little bit later.

But first, Ben, I'm, you know, it is all of our loss, it is most especially showy Otoni's loss.

Yeah, I feel like of all of the members of the baseball writing community, you are feeling this sting, perhaps the most keenly.

Oh, I'm sure there are a lot of others out there who care just as deeply about show his career prospects as I do,

but yes, this is painful, figuratively painful for me, perhaps physically painful for him,

but in his second start on Sunday, he initially looked great, you know, which made it all the more disappointing when things went south again for him.

So he had a one, two, three first inning and his velocity seemed to be up from his previous start and he threw his blitter and he got a strikeout

and he looked almost like his old self and then he came back out for the second inning.

And at some point suffered a pretty precipitous velocity loss and that is never a good sign and then his control kind of went to and he walked a few guys and he didn't make it out of that inning.

And that was bad enough, but when you couple it with the velocity decline, it was quite worrisome and the angel sent him for an MRI after the game.

He complained of some discomfort and on Monday, we got the results, which is that he has a forearm strain as it's being called.

We were all getting very familiar with that term these days. It's a, I guess, more technically a grade one to two strain of the flexor pronator mass.

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