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Hello and welcome to episode 1618 of Effectively Wildly Baseball Podcasts from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters

I'm Ben Lundberg of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller of the SPN-Low Sam

Hello

Huge congressional baseball game news this week

I don't know if you saw it, everyone's talking about it

Cedric Richmond, the Babe Ruth of the Congressional Baseball Game, will no longer be playing in the game

He is a congressman, Democratic congressman from Louisiana

And he announced this week that he is resigning from Congress before the new administration takes over to join the administration as a senior advisor to Joe Biden or assistant to the president and director of public engagement

So that means he will not be able to play in future congressional baseball games

And that's huge news if you care about those games because he is the Babe Ruth of the Congressional Baseball Game

He, I'll give you his stats here, he is played in nine congressional baseball games

I believe the Democrats have won eight of those, maybe eight of the last nine

largely because of his dominance

So he ends his career with a 615 730 1038 batting line

And an 8-0 pitching record with a 2.45 ERA 8 complete games and 66 strikeouts in 60 innings pitched

I think the games are 7 innings and that's your basic 2.6 wins above replacement

as calculated by 538's Nathaniel Reckits who joined me in Meg for an episode, episode 1396 last year

So he's calculated war for the congressman and Richmond had 2.6 in nine games

That's what that's a 47 war pace over 162 games so pretty good

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