Well, it's moments like these that make you ask, how can you not be horny about baseball?

Every take hot and hotter, entwining and a budding, watch him climb a mountain, nothing about nothing, every stitch wet with sweat, breaking balls back, dormy on Wild, how can you not be horny?

When it comes to podcasts, how can you not be horny?

Hello and welcome to episode 2469 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fancrafts. Hello, Meg.

Hello.

When we do our monthly bonus episodes for Patreon supporters, often we start with some low-stakes rants,

just something that's gotten our goat that is usually not baseball-related.

I have one that is baseball-related, so I'll begin with a bit of a low-stakes rant.

And it concerns the percentiles at baseball savon, which I like.

Everyone likes them.

And because we all like them and they're colorful and they

give you a decent snapshot of a player's performance, they circulate a lot and people share them a lot,

which is good, which is fine. But there's a lot of vague posting that goes on with the savant

percentiles where people will just screenshot the

percentiles and then they will post them somewhere without identifying the player and I swear I'm not

sub-tweeting or sub-podcasting anyone in particular here I just see this all the time and they don't

identify the player and the screenshot itself don't identify the player and the

screenshot itself doesn't identify the player. So people will just post the percentiles and just

be like, well, this seems sustainable or something like that. And then I'm always wondering,

well, who is that? I cover baseball professionally, but I don't have perfect recall of everyone's savant

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