I have a question about this. A question that involves logic.

Good morning and welcome to episode 178 of effectively wild

the daily podcast from baseballperspectus.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh.

It's email Wednesday, but first Ben we fixed the Astros.

Yes, we did. All they had to do was I guess face Sprint Mar and be bashed by us on the puck.

So right now JD Martinez is up with the bases loaded. It's the fifth inning.

And if he homers, then the Astros will have doubled their season total of runs.

And how many strikeouts? Like five, but they have five strikeouts, but also five walks.

And of the five strikeouts, three of them are from Brett Wallace, who is now hitting

50, 150 with 16 strikeouts in 20 played appearances. Gosh.

But like Chris Carter has hit like a legitimate Major Leagueer today.

I was sort of. He started out with the bases loaded and nobody out in the first.

And I left, I quit watching the game at that point convinced that Chris Carter would never

get another Major League hit. And since then, homers singles are going to break up the Astros.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. So we're going to answer some questions. You guys came through with a

whole bunch of great questions. Really came through lots of lots of good ones and lots of ones that

we wish we could answer, but are not smart enough to answer off the cuff.

Yeah, but you know, sometimes these sometimes these questions find their way into full shows.

Articles or bug. That's exactly right. That's what I was going to.

Yeah. I was going to I was going to say that if you'd let me finish.

Well, that's that's our chemistry. We finish each other sentences.

We step on each other's sentences. All right. So first, I'm going to start with one from Luke

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