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Hello and welcome to episode 2346 of Effectively Wild

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I'm Meg Rally of Fangraphs and I am joined as always by Ben Lindberg of the

ringer. Ben, how are you? Not as always, but in this instance, what? Here we are. The two of us,

you and me again. Yeah. I'm doing okay because I was prepared to be up in arms about the fact

that the royals have signed Dallas Keichel to a minor league contract and are

assigning him to AAA, where he will be rotation mates with Rich Hill. And I was upset at first,

because I just think you've got a perfectly good aged lefty right there in your AAA rotation

already. What do you need Dallas Kichel for?

In fact, Rich Hill is much more seasoned and experienced than Dallas Kichael, who's just a

spring chicken. Dallas Kikl is 37 years young. So I was going to complain and rant, but then I looked at the last two

starts that Rich Hill has made in AAA. Not so hot. Not so great. So I'm now not mad. I am sad

because he, in his past two starts facing the Iowa Cubs and the Toledo mudhands, he's allowed

seven runs in each of those starts.

Yeah.

And one of them, only five was earned.

But, yeah, he's coming off of a Tuesday start where he went four innings, gave up 10 hits,

seven runs all earned, walked three struck out, three,

gave up three home runs.

That's not going to get you to the big leagues.

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