Hello, and welcome to Effectively Wild, Baseball Prospectus daily podcast for Thursday, August 16th.

We have a great show for you today, perhaps the best show.

It shows so spectacular that you get your hopes.

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I'm joined as always by Ben Lindbergh. Ben, what kind of tier are you drinking tonight?

Green.

Okay. Do you have a topic to talk about?

I do. I'd like to talk about Melkie Cabrera.

I also actually would like to talk about Melkie Cabrera.

We should probably know Felix Hernandez also through a perfect game.

If you have anything that you want to say about that, you might want to just get that out of the way quickly.

It was quite impressive.

I think that what is impressive is that I learned today that everybody likes Felix Hernandez.

And that's actually pretty rare. It seems to me that every player from the moment he joins the league is on a gradual trajectory toward being disliked.

And it's great to see that Felix Hernandez has been in the league for I think nine years now or so.

And it's still beloved.

So that's great.

It didn't touch off another nine years, seven or eight years, whatever.

Touch off another round of shouldn't Felix be traded?

I think mostly ironic though.

Maybe partly.

Melkie Cabrera, do you want to talk about Melkie Cabrera and your experience with Melkie Cabrera?

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