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All on the barrier, right?

And I'm feeling it in so much time.

All of us just that people laugh without me they swear.

Just just that people laugh without me they swear.

Hello and welcome to episode 1739 of Effectively Wilder Baseball Podcasts from the Vingraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer, my co-host Meg Rally is on vacation, so just like last time I will be joined by two guests today.

Later in the episode I will make it back-to-back podcast talking to former Major Leaguers by bringing on a man who was briefly a big leaguer, John Pough.

If you've been listening to Effectively Wilder for a few years you may remember the name, and you may know why I'm talking to John Pough, who is not just a former Major Leaguer, but also a former stat-blast star.

But I'll explain that a little later.

First, I want to talk about the hottest team in baseball, the New York Yankees, the almost certainly play-off-bound New York Yankees, who have been kind of a confounding team all season long and have continued to be kind of confounding lately, even as they have very rapidly made up.

First of the ground that they lost with their slow start to the season, on Thursday they won their 12th consecutive game, and they have finally been firing on all cylinders, most of their cylinders at least.

So I'm joined first today by my Ringer colleague Zach Cram, with whom I've already recorded a Ringer MLB show podcast today.

Worlds are colliding, streams are crossing, Zach, welcome to Effectively Wild.

Hopefully there will be less, for your sake anyway, forcing you to make tough quick decisions on this podcast.

Yeah, well, there's definitely going to be a lot less bowman, so probably because he's usually the one who's putting me on the spot.

So I guess we should begin by disclosing our pinstripe sympathies here.

I am a Alapso Yankees fan, a former Yankees fan, some might say a reformed Yankees fan, your Yankees fan, the a little more active than mine, right?

Where's the intensity level compared to whenever your peak Yankees fandom was a lot lower, my daily mood no longer rests on whether the Yankees winner lose, which is a good thing generally, although I would have been ecstatic over the last two weeks if that were still the case.

Yeah, yeah, I don't think I'm quite as far gone as you, but I am currently en route, I would say.

Well, the Yankees are doing their best to try to keep you on their side these days and people can take those sympathies into account if they wish during this episode, but I will vouch for Zach and I will say I know almost no one who is more governed by reason and logic unlike a lot of Yankees fans, he's just going to go with what the numbers say here.

And the numbers say that the Yankees playoff odds have absolutely skyrocketed over the past couple of weeks and really a little longer than that.

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