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Good morning and welcome to episode 276 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseballperspectives.com.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh Ben.

I found out your Twitter name now, Ben.

It's a wrap.

Took you a few years.

All right.

So we should address a couple things, lingering things from the e-mail show.

You know what I love about the e-mail show is that it leads to the e-mail follow-up show.

Yes.

That's a Facebook discussion also these days.

Not that you would know.

That's between you and me.

Call back.

All right.

So the first thing is we talked yesterday about whether measuring players heart rates would be useful.

And Dan Brooks e-mail me a link that I just had a chance to glance at.

But it's about researchers who are kind of able to determine changes in this sort of thing by video, by looking at variations and successive frames of video that are imperceptible to the naked eye.

That's a quote.

I didn't use those words myself.

For instance, the software makes it possible to actually see someone's pulse as the skin reddens and pales with the flow of blood.

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