What is the primary goal?

You should know, Professor. You programmed me.

Come on.

What is the primary goal to win the game?

Good morning and welcome to episode 411 of Effectively Wild,

the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus,

presented by thebaseballreference.com Playindex.

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller,

joined by no one else today because it's the listener email show.

And we got a ton of good emails.

We didn't put out a call for emails until Thursday,

and so we were running a little low,

and I put a note in the Facebook group,

and suddenly we have way too many emails that I want to answer.

So we'll just start.

The first one comes from Mark W in Alexandria, Virginia.

He says, with the pirates, Russell Martin,

wearing a heart monitor,

what questions does Sam want to ask the pirates?

So this is the latest in a line of strange things

that we have discussed over the course of this podcast

that have subsequently occurred,

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