Good evening, good morning. This is Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

prospectus. We are coming to you just after midnight, eastern time, having just celebrated

the Houston Astros ability to complete one entire baseball game without three or more

infielders colliding on a simple sacrifice-bunt attempt. Ben Lindbergh is two floors from

the top of his New York apartment building, and as always, I'm sitting under the shadow

of our spare refrigerator. Ben, how are you this evening? I watched the newsroom, so that

was a mistake. Well, I watched the hour, the hour, which is the bridge version. I watched

the hour. It was better than the newsroom. I'm not totally feeling it. We're halfway

through the season, but I never got very enthusiastic, but I finished it. Okay.

So that's our TV segment. All right. Do you have a baseball related topic? I do. I'd

like to talk about Tim Burdak. Oh, all over the news, please.

Googling furiously. And I will be talking about my trout because I think that we're obligated

to. Okay. And we will probably have a lot more to say about that, so let's start with

Tim Burdak. Oh, wait, wait, wait. One's a bird and one, no, everyone.

So I just came across this article while we were furiously searching for topics, or while

I was, you were much more prepared. And it's called Collins, acknowledges over use of

Burdak, that is Terry Collins and Tim Burdak. So Metroliver Tim Burdak has a torn anterior

capsule in his pitching shoulder, which is a very bad injury to have. It is what Johan

Tana had and what Chris Young had. His season is certainly over. His career may possibly

be over. And Collins was very frank, I think, surprisingly frank, about whether his usage

might have played a role in the injury. So I mean, Tim Burdak is leading major leagues

in games. He is pitched in 56 games. He is a lefty specialist type. So in his 56 games,

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