The lights go down, what you baby, the lights go down, what you baby, the lights go down

and there's no one around.

Morning and welcome to episode 308 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseballperspectives.com.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, we are going to do as we did last week and split our

email show in the two nights and fill the first half of each night with a playoff banter.

Ben, how are you?

Okay.

So you didn't read my recap yet, I assume?

I did.

Okay.

So yesterday we had talked about whether there was any real sort of method to try to determine

whether the pitchers or the hitters to blame for this string of incredible pitching performances

that we're seeing from the Tigers and I kind of attempted to do that and so I wanted

to just mention that because we had talked about it and see if you thought there was really

any validity at all to it.

Well, do you want to describe what your methodology was and people should just go

read it if they subscribe to baseballperspectives, which they should do, but if not?

Yeah, sure.

So it's limited what I was able to look at, particularly in a fairly short period of time,

but I figured if I wanted to figure out a way to differentiate between the pitches that

the pitcher tried to make and then the pitches that were kind of mistakes and if he made

the pitch that he intended to make that was like his pitch, I give him full credit and

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