Good morning and welcome to episode 193 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh with Sam Miller. It is Wednesday, so it's email show Wednesday.

You sent us emails. We are now going to read and answer them in accordance with the email show.

What's up the first two in the show's history?

Yes, I think so.

Yeah, I don't even actually know technically what who is. I think it's supposed to denote excitement.

Excited agreement?

Yeah, I guess.

All right. Let's do emails.

You want to start?

Yeah, sure. All right, so let's see. I'll just, they're all pretty quick, so we can probably not get a whole lot of them.

Let's just fly through them. All right, so this is from a gentleman named Mike in Fairfax who actually says this is a quick one here.

To what extent should pick off throws be accounted for when thinking about pitch counts?

Granted, it's less stressful than a maximum effort to pitch, but it seems like it should play into the calculus.

Should it count as a half pitch, three fifths, Mike?

So my first thought is that it shouldn't count as anything because it's not, it really isn't, it's, it's just nothing like a pitch.

It doesn't, you don't get your whole body into it. It's, I mean, it's not just not max effort. It's, it's almost no effort relative to, I mean, it would be if you and I did it.

Like for us to throw to first base is not that different than for us to throw a pitch to home.

But I mean, if you really look at what pitchers do on pitches to home, it really is like a very complicated machine all working together at full effort.

And so I think that that's, it's hard to compare the exhaustion of that move to one to first.

But since he asks for a number and I guess technically zero is probably not a great answer.

If you really, if you want to be perfectly precise, you might say some number. Do you have a number?

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