And a good number of them have hung in with the wet weather as Crawford hits a little

pop towards short Simmons want to play and the scoop it first gets him.

Two out.

You have noticed he's pretty good.

Yeah.

Good morning and welcome to episode 406 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

prospectus presented by the baseball reference dot com play it next.

I am Ben Lindbergh joined by Sam Miller, hello, Sam Miller, probably the most significant

baseball number currently standing, right?

Yeah, it's a big one.

I don't think there's any that is currently standing that is a bigger deal.

Yeah, yeah, this is a big one, which is weird because it's not like 406 is the record

or anything.

It's not even close to the record.

Nope.

It's just this.

The 20 years before he hit 406, like everybody was hitting 400 and like at the time, like

in 1942, I don't think 406 would have seemed like a significant number at all.

I think it had been, it had been the first in like a decade, maybe I think that had done

it, but it wasn't unheard of as it would be today.

No.

No, right.

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