How long baby I know

Will this man be here to say?

How can we make a living?

All sucky time. Hey.

You got to make a change.

Hello and welcome to episode 1679 of Effectively Wildly.

A baseball contest from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Minberg of the

Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs. Hello Meg. Hello. So we have a guest today who will be

with us for most of the episode. His name is Gary McCoy and he is a high performance coach.

He has worked for many a team, many a league all over the world, worked for the Astros, worked

for the Marlins, but also for teams in Australia and Taiwan and elsewhere. And we'll be talking to him

about injury prevention today. So there's a really interesting story recently at Sport Techie

by Joe Lemire who wrote about how Gary worked with a team in Taiwan and managed to improve their

injury prevention program to the point that the team had zero injuries all season long.

He pitched a perfect game injury wise at least with soft tissue injuries. So we're going to talk

to him about how he achieved that and how MLB teams should be approaching keeping their players

healthy in general. But also in this season in particular, as everyone is worrying about innings

limits, but perhaps they shouldn't be as Gary will tell us and we'll also talk about how the new

technology of biomechanics is changing performance science and how AI is playing a role. So we'll get

into all of that in just a moment. Just wanted to say that I think the backlash is building

to the extra innings automatic runner rule. And maybe this is just because I am against it and

therefore I'm looking for all evidence that others are against it. But seems to be like anecdotally,

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