She took my hair and tried to make me understand that she would always be there.

I looked away and she ran away from me today.

I'm such a liar.

Good morning and welcome to episode 386 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseballperspectus.com.

I am Benlyn Berg, joined by Sam Miller.

Hey.

Hello.

We are taking a break from our team preview podcast to do our usual Friday listener email show.

Today is a little different in that while you were otherwise occupied today.

I spoke to Ricky Smith, who is a comedian and writer, and told me a story about losing his date to Derek Cheater,

which he told on Twitter first, and then told in entertaining fashion to me.

So you can listen to that after our questions and answers about baseball.

So if you want to skip to that, you can find the timestamp in the episode summary somewhere.

Otherwise, I have some questions about baseball that we can answer.

I have some questions about your interest in Derek Cheater's dating life.

Yeah, I can't confirm the story, but I enjoy it nonetheless.

Okay.

So this question comes.

We got some good ones this good ones this week.

This one comes from Coleman from Southampton in the United Kingdom.

The following question occurred to me after AJ Burnett signed a one year $16 million deal with the Phillies today.

If a picture was projected to post a 3.5 ERA while pitching 200 innings,

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