I hate to use the term wild, they're effectively wild because it's not wild, but he's missed

enough where it puts something in the back of your mind to look for one spot against them.

Good morning and welcome to episode 269 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller, low Sam. Howdy. Anything to say

before we start? No. Well, I know. Okay. All business then. What's your topic? Robinson

Okay. And mine is Jose Fernandez. Okay. Good for it. All right. So I just wanted to revisit

a discussion that we had earlier this year that I do not recall any of. We talked about

the service time considerations when Jose Fernandez was called up. This was on April 8th,

episode 176. And basically the thing is that if the Marlins had waited even just a couple weeks,

a few weeks to call up Fernandez, he would not have become a free agent until a year later,

which seems like sort of an important thing for any team to consider, especially a team that

doesn't spend a lot of money like the Marlins. So now I thought we could revisit that because

Jose Fernandez's season is almost at an end. He beat the Dodgers Monday, which is almost an

impossible task. The Dodgers are now in a losing streak. They have lost two in a row.

And Hernandez is now at 145 and two-thirds innings. He is supposedly going to be limited to

150 to 170. So he is very close to done. He's probably just got a few more starts left and maybe

we'll wrap up in early September, and then we'll be fine. We presume that they are not planning

on optioning him at that point. I don't know. If the concern is the innings,

I mean, you don't mean like having pitch in the minors, you just mean option. Yeah, that I don't know.

I mean, it would be it would it would not play well. No, it is not right. It is not like

the twins option and Kyle gives them in his 34 ERA. Yeah, I would think the players union would

would probably not be pleased about that and are not big fans of the Marlins as it is.

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