If baseball were different, how different would it be?

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Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2167 of Effectively Wild

a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Benlinburg of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of fan graphs.

Hello Meg.

Hello.

I think I have developed the right mindset when it comes to Skeen's Day, where I have put the apprehension out of my mind.

I've banished any worries, any fears about what might happen to someone who throws

triple digits with the regularity that Paul Skeen's does and I'm just going to enjoy it for as long as it lasts as long as he's

dealing I'm just going to live in the moment day to day. This is my Dr. Strange love

how I learned to stop worrying and love Skeen's day.

I'm just gonna enjoy him blowing people away and convince myself that it will last forever

until proven otherwise.

That feels like a healthy approach to really any picture you enjoy.

There's nothing I can do to safeguard him. So I'll just enjoy it just enjoy it and

when it looks like it did on Friday like boy really hard not to enjoy it because I was out of town for his first start and then got to watch well some of his second start I think we were recording through so I you know I

went back and and started it over you know you had told me that his command was poor in his first go and I don't think you

were alone in that assessment no yes mani grandal his catcher said he was

effectively wild right and uh... then he was just plain effective in the second one.

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