Good morning and welcome to episode 17 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

prospectus daily podcast in Manhattan, New York. As always, except when I'm in Vancouver,

it has been Lindbergh with me is Sam Miller in California in his garage in his car under

the compost tea and the the lights that keep the worms from escaping. How are you, Sam?

You can really paint a picture, Ben. What insight or observation do you have for us tonight?

Something, something Roy O's Walt. Okay. And I will talk about the news that just broke before

we started recording, which is that the Orioles are calling up top prospect, Mani Machado.

You go first. All right. So, I don't know if you've been following at all, Roy O's Walt has had

a little bit of a hard couple of days on Sunday. I believe it was. He came into a game in relief

and pitched two innings and he had pitched quite a bit recently and he didn't feel like he could

go a third inning. And so, as the reports go, he told his manager that he didn't have a third

inning in him and maybe the manager Ron Washington might have kind of thrown him under the bus a

little bit after the game and they had to clear the air or whatever. And just generally speaking,

Roy O's Walt doesn't seem to be having a great time out there this year. He's having a

disappointing season after joining the Rangers. He hasn't played a key role. He's been hit really

hard. He's been demoted to the bullpen to make way for Scott Feldman. And the only reason I bring

this up is because there was an article, a magazine article that Buster only wrote about seven

years, six years ago. And I'm going to read you the opening of this article starting now.

Maybe you didn't hear right. Mississippi pine trees are flashing by at 60 miles now or you feel

like you're on a roller coaster on two paved lanes and your white knuckling the door handle.

Maybe your senses are just overloaded. You ask from the back seat. Say again, 10 years, Roy O's Walt

says. Again, he glances into the rear view mirror. My goal is to play 10 years and then I'll figure

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