I think the Tigers certainly have the talent to go all the way, but I won't be surprised

at all if they get bounced in the first round.

Good morning and welcome to episode 307 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. Ben, how are you? Okay.

Just left over from yesterday, as you all recall, I emailed Gabe Kaplan to find out whether

Bunting repeatedly at a wounded third basement would be a breach of unwritten rules and Gabe

did not think it was. And so I guess a team could do it. I, since it's nice to know, that's nice to

know that that is one rule that has not yet been unwritten. Although I am curious, I would like to

see someone do it just because I would like to see what the reaction would be because it does

feel like it has all the elements of an unwritten rule waiting to be not written in the sense that

it would be sort of an effective but not quite natural way of playing the game. It would be,

it seems like the sort of thing that like CJ Wilson would have an issue with. This seems like

the sort of thing. CJ Wilson has always complaining about. So I wonder if players would have a problem

with it, but I'm all but certain that at least one columnist would have a problem with it.

Yeah, probably. There was some discussion of it in the Facebook group and there were people on

on both sides arguing the issue, but I guess I'm going to go with the the major leader.

Probably has the best idea. Yeah, I know. I believe I believe that Gabe is is probably correct

as to the state of the of the rule. It also seems interesting to wonder whether it would be

different response depending on the third basement. If it were Alex Rodriguez playing third base,

I don't know that anybody would be moaning for him. If it were, you know, like a unionist

betting court or, you know, a walking arias, I'm not sure anybody would care, but Miguel Cabrera

is seems to be beloved, beloved. And he is playing, you know, he's got this sort of hero narrative

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