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It's effectively wild. Like Nolan, Ryan was sometimes. Hello and welcome to episode 2154 of Effectively Wild a Baseball

Podcast from Fangras presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindber of the ringer, not joined by Meg Ralea fan graphs, who as mentioned last time

is a way at a wedding today, and so I have recruited not one person to fill in for Meg, but four people.

I have sort of a super-sized episode for you today,

as is often the case when Meg is away.

Effectively while it turns into a variety show,

we have three disparate segments this time.

And as you know, if you're a regular listener,

pitcher injuries have been on my mind the onslaught hasn't stopped

Robert Stevenson out for the season with an elbow injury before he could throw his first pitch for the angels

This is such a common occurrence that Robert Stevenson's contract included a

clause that triggered a $2.5 million team option for 2027 if he suffered damage to an elbow

ligament that required an IL stint of at least 130 consecutive days.

Maybe we'll start to see that kind of clause appear in pitcher contracts more often.

The Rockies Kyle Freeland, former effectively wild guest, also out with an elbow injury,

reportedly not related to his recent pitch running appearance or to his entering the cockpit and pretending to take control of a Rockies charter flight that was hitting coach Hensley Muellins, not Kyle Freeland, the Rockies man, even United Airlines pilots, not immune to

mismanagement in the Rockies presence.

Fly the friendly skies.

Not supposed to be that friendly.

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