Good morning and welcome to episode 185 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh and joining me is Sam Miller. Sam, you did some further

thought or research into pictures and hand rumors. Is that so? Yeah.

Not really. I know what you're talking about. Yeah. So, Carmen C, who if you listen to Hang Up and

listen is a podcast celebrity and is also a listener of this podcast is he suggested that one of

the reasons that hand warmers might be a non-starter in baseball is because there's not nearly the

downtime that a football quarterback has. Football quarterback of course can keep his hands

in his muffler for I don't know 90% of the time. Whereas a baseball pitcher during downtime is

responsible for holding onto the baseball. And I think that's a reasonable objection and so then I

just sort of watched a pitcher for about I don't know eight minutes or something like that to see

how much downtime there is. And if we're assuming that there's a some sort of heating device in there

that it's not simply insulation but that there's actually a heat generating device in there. I think

there actually would be plenty of time for a pitcher to get some benefit out of it. There's plenty

of action that the pitcher's not involved in and you know catcher comes out to the mound and

you know batter strolls to the plate and so on and so forth. So in fielders throw the ball around

all that time I think the pitcher could get some benefit of it. I mean they're blowing on their

hands so they obviously think there's some benefit to warming their hands up even a little bit so

this would do more than that. Plot thickens we will we will have a regular hand warmer segment

on every episode from now on. Okay I wanted to mention something that is not a topic but we have

talked about Clubhouse chemistry a few times and I have had this tab open in my browser for a few

days now meaning to mention it and I haven't yet and I don't think we really have to talk about it

necessarily but I just wanted to read it. It's something that James Shields said his sort of

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