Good morning and welcome to episode 296 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller. Hello, Sam. So you already live in a world

where elementary is airing again. Like it is already aired in your world. Has it? Yeah, 10 o'clock.

10 o'clock. That's late. Season premiere. Season premiere. You're so excited. You're so lukewarm on

shows that I consider better than that show. Yeah, you're really you're quite fond of that show.

I am quite fond of it. I like to have I like to have one show that does not require me to

you know to be cool, you know, I mean like so much of what I watch is sort of subconsciously filtered

through the you know like the importance lens, you know like oh this is it's important that I

watch this show or it's a it's significant that I can talk about this book or like I'm you know

and so it's always nice to have just just one show where I just like I don't talk about it with

anybody. I just sort of gleefully enjoy it. Well, I watch Long Mire so you don't have to explain

this concept to me. Uh-huh. That's my elementary. Worst. That's the worst show. Oh my gosh.

It's not a great show. It's not a great show. Okay, uh just a quick follow up to my topic from yesterday

about the September starter usage. Andrew Kuh who is one of our stat guys at PP just did some

subsequent research into that today to break down uh to break down the month of of September by

week to see if there's any trend towards playoff teams using their starters for shorter outings

as as they get closer to the playoffs. Uh and there is um the last couple weeks it goes down to

like eighty eight and then eighty six or so pitches per start. So once it's really officially

sewn up at that that last couple of weeks of the season uh teams either do take their guys out

to rest them more or they take them out so they can put bullpen guys in and actually win the game.

So that does happen when you when you dig a little deeper into the numbers.

The thing is there's no actual merit to the BBC Sherlock Holmes show either. I mean it is equally

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