Typically, in a four-man wall, we're going to get our midfielders involved in the wall.

We want our defenders to be free, we want the defenders to be marking men up.

They're playing defense because they're our best defenders, and we don't want to put

them in a position where they're pretty much just like cones.

We want them to be active, we want them to be actively defending, and that's one of

the main reasons we use our midfielders in the wall.

Good morning, and welcome to episode 217 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus.

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller.

It is Wednesday, which is email Wednesday, so you sent us a bunch of questions.

We're going to answer some of them now, and we only received one angry email about our

yes you'll puig episode.

And actually, if I remember right, when we talked about puig in spring training, we received

one angry email about not being critical enough of puig at the time.

We had bought too much into his spring training stats, so we have one foreign and one against,

I guess that says partial.

It's like that old saying, you can't please anybody ever of the time.

Yes, I think that's how it goes.

We did get a bunch of ratings and reviews over the weekend after I asked people to do

that over the weekend, so I appreciate that.

Thank you for those, and if you haven't done one yet, please consider doing one on iTunes

as it helps us reach more listeners and stroke our egos.

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