Good morning and welcome to episode 280 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh joined by Sam Miller. Hello Sam. Howdy. How are you? Good. Would

you like to discuss anything before we discuss things? 280 was always like the line where a hitter

became a good hitter. Not a great hitter, a great hitter at 300, but 280 was a good hitter.

Is that mean we have become a good podcast? It's a counting stat, not a rate stat thing. What we're doing here. That's true.

Okay. Well, I don't have much to say. I was thinking earlier that it's strange how impossible to find

minor league postseason stats it is. Has that ever occurred to you? When you look up a

player's stats on Baseball reference, his postseason stats are not included. In the minors,

there's no section for postseason stats like there is for major league guys. There's pretty much no

source. There's like a private portal where you can look up MLLB stats and even there, it's kind of

hard to find. It's like it never happened. So they don't get wrapped into their regular stats. No,

they don't. Yeah, it occurred to me earlier to wonder whether that was the case and no, they don't.

It's like they just disappear. We have no way to know who's clutch in the minor leagues.

Would you rather, if you were, I mean, if you were, for instance, the editor of a site that kept

track of stats, for instance, if that were a thing that happened, would you rather see the stats

be their own separate line? Or would you rather see them just wrapped in unmentioned as part of

the overall line? I think for a minor league, I might be okay with it just being in the regular

season line. I don't know. Maybe that might be, well, I don't know. Maybe it's deceptive when

you look and see that a guy played more games than someone else and more games than were scheduled

for his team. I guess it could be confusing. Really? I don't know. I don't know. I can't, I don't

see any downside of that. I'm not totally against the idea of having that be the case in the majors.

I'm not necessarily, I don't think I'm for it, but I'm not totally against it.

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