Good morning. Welcome to effectively wild the baseball

perspective daily podcast. I am Sam Miller in the Honda Fit and I'm with Ben

Lindbergh on the shore of the Hudson Rivers, I recall. That's right. Still

correct. We're coming to you actually just after the final pitch of the

night has been thrown in Atlanta and you are listening to this in the

morning on Thursday morning. We're glad you're here. We've made it two

episodes and we're going to see how this one goes. Ben, do you have a topic for

us tonight? I do have a topic and my topic is Trevor Bauer. Trevor Bauer, he's

not even in the Major Leaks. Not anymore. That's what I'd like to talk about.

Well, my topic was going to be Brad Penny who is in the Major Leaks, believe it or

not. But I don't have any opposition of going with Europe, so why don't we just

go with yours tonight? Alright, let's do that. What do you want to talk about

with Trevor Bauer? I'd like to talk a little bit about what Trevor Bauer did

during his brief stay in the Major's, but I guess I'd probably like to talk a

little bit more about what we thought he was going to do and what it was

discussed that he was going to do and whether we can learn anything from what

he actually did, which so far has not really matched those expectations. How would

you describe what he did? I would describe it as AAA worthy, probably, and I guess

the Diamondbacks agree. I mean, clearly he had issues finding the strike zone

and I mean, he still miss bats as he did in AAA, clearly he can do that, but

he, you know, he had struggled some with his control in AAA before he was

promoted and once he got to the Major's, those problems were sort of

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