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Effectively Wild

Hello and welcome to episode 2361 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

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I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs.

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Well, we kind of cursed Nathan Avaldi by marveling at how low his ERA was the other day.

Not for the first time this season that we have complimented him, to be fair, but nonetheless,

he did see his ERA jump up from 1.38 to an unsightly 1.71 after his Most recent start against the Diamondbacks in which he allowed five runs in five innings.

Yeah.

And it's a nine ERA on the day.

So while we're celebrating low ERAs as long as they last, I figured that we could briefly talk about Trevor Rogers, too. Yeah. Because his

ERA is down in an Evaldi before we jinxed him range. He is, he's at 1.43. How about that?

How about that? He's had a bunch of good starts in a row, obviously. He's had almost nothing but good starts this season.

But he has managed to have four excellent starts in a row, or I guess three at least,

in which he has allowed one run in each.

And yet his ERA has barely budged because that's just what his ERA is.

It's like when you allow one run in eight innings and then one run in six innings and then one run in six innings and then one and run in seven innings, which was his most recent start against your Orioles, unfortunately, for them.

My Orioles? You mean my Mariners?

Yes, your Mariners. Their Orioles. Trevor Rod Mariners? Yes, you're Mariners.

Their Orioles.

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