I couldn't keep myself from shouting. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that.

Look at that.

Younger. Younger. Younger. Younger. Younger.

I can't get you right on my mind.

Good morning and welcome to episode 442 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

baseballperspectives.com presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. It's a new week. Ben, how are you doing?

Very well. Thank you.

I understand you've brought banter.

Just a quick one. We talked last week about sliding head first and whether it's

advisable when we were talking about the different levels of hustle and which ones

we would advise players not to do. I came down and came out against sliding head first,

not just as a form of hustle but just as a form of technique because it seems like

it's a way that you can hurt yourself. There was an item that I came across after that

about the Astros telling their players not to slide head first anymore.

So apparently bow porter is he is against it and George Springer is a head first

slider. He has slid head first throughout his entire minor league career and he has

slid head first a few times early on in his major league career.

And Porter said, I don't like head first slides. It just exposes too much of your

body and you can get fingers and hands hurt. I really don't like head first slides.

Players for whatever reason guys get like to slide head first. It's more of a knee jerk

thing as far as their sliding technique. It's something that I really don't like.

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