Good evening. Good morning. It is Episode 20 of Effectively Wild. Baseball

Perspectives Daily Podcast. I am Sam Miller. I have just watched every pitch of a

Brad Penny outing in which the man who started the 2007 All-Star game, pitched

two innings of relief and allowed six runs on nine base runners. So the mood of

this day's podcast may be a bit foul. I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh, my boss,

and in a general sense I would just say a boss. That's human being. Ben, are you

doing well? I am. I watched four innings of Derek Lowe, which went a lot better

than the Penny innings. He struck out four guys, which is I think as many guys as

he'd struck out all season before today. Career high. Yeah. Season high. Well, yeah, I know I was just

making a joke. I was trying to also. You were making a joke by scaling back. All right.

Ben, we're off to a great start as always. Do you have anything baseball related that you're

informed enough about to talk about tonight? I have something baseball related I would like

to talk about. I'm semi-informed about it. I would like to talk about Jerix and Profar.

Okay. I would like to talk about Johan Santana, the pitcher for the Metz. That's a good one.

So let's start with you. Let's start with you. Okay. So this is sort of top prospect,

pennant race call-up season. And the next guy, it looks like who might be coming up in the,

or on the heels of Machado is another top rated shortstop, Jerix and Profar, who is a

Rangers player in AA. And he was rated the best prospect in baseball by both Jason Parks and

Kevin Goldstein at baseball perspective recently. So that is news. And it was reported by

T.R. Sullivan, who is the MLB.com beat writer for the Rangers. And basically they're thinking of

calling him up as soon as next Monday, possibly, because they are currently carrying three bench

players, which means that Michael Young is the backup middle infielder, which is not a situation

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