I kind of need to come up with something to separate yourself from the next guy.

I mean, I'm a picture coach, Jeff Andrews, really understood the sinker and I kid people

all the time without it.

He'd see me working on my downless supersizing or valuing mail.

That's a little reason why I made it so far.

Good morning and welcome to episode 247 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

prospectus.

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller and his chirping birds.

Good morning, Sam.

Good morning, Ben.

Did you see that Johnny G. Amatella was sent down?

I was going to bring that up myself.

I had his tab open.

Yeah.

So the third shot is also a failure.

Or was it more than three?

I guess maybe he had multiple chances in those other two seasons.

I don't know.

But they are getting progressively shorter shots.

Yes, this one was only 10 games.

So let's say last year, he had about a month and a half at the end of the year and about

a month and a half in the middle of the year.

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