Good morning and welcome to episode 282 of Effectively Wild the Daily Podcasts from Baseball

Perspectives.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, Ben, how are you doing?

It's really hoping this was the breaking bad podcast, but I must have made a wrong turn somewhere.

At least it's not the long-mire.

You should be so lucky.

Are you familiar with Will Smith's season?

I know he's a reliever now and he's been good.

Yeah, he's 38 strikeouts in four walks in 29 innings with one start in there, so it's

possible that those sets are even better as a reliever.

And Will Smith is, yeah, he had his one start, he basically gave up six runs in four innings

five strikeouts, one walk.

So he's been essentially unhiddable since then.

And Will Smith is like the most, I don't know, he is maybe in my mind the prototypical

A-Ball prospect who has like no chance of making it in the majors.

I mean, like when he was in high air, I mean not high A, in short season ball, he had 76

strikeouts and six walks, and I remember there was a little bit of a freak out among some

angels fans about whether he was a prospect or not, and you know, there were people who

thought he was the best prospect in the organization at the time.

And then there were other people who like left him off the top, you know, 20 altogether.

And here he is as a reliever, completely dominating, and there was, yeah, there was another thing

about Will Smith that was interesting, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to pull

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