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Hello and welcome to episode 2367 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from

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I'm Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangrass. Hello, Meg.

Hello.

I've been talking about the trio of Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander, and Max Scherzer all season

since before the season even when I speculated about whether this would be the last

hurrah for all three of them and how they would go out. And then we talked about them later in

the season when it looked like they would go out not particularly well. And it was looking maybe

more like a swan song and none of them was pitching all that well well lately things have looked up a bit

maybe have the old guy still got it a little bit so through july 26 that we're recording here

on august 27th so i'm going to compare the past calendar month to prior to that so So through July 26th, the three of them,

Scherzer Verlander and Kershaw, had combined for 1.5 FanGrafts War total in 172 innings pitched.

Yeah. So approaching a full starting pitcher season and not completely terrible, 1.5 war, I guess,

but that's what you're getting from all three of them put together.

And probably if you were going by baseball reference war, RA9 were it would have been even worse.

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