Good morning and welcome to episode 453 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective presented by the play index at baseball reference. I'm Sam Miller with Ben, then how are you great?

Did you see the Lyle Overbeach pitched?

No, I did not. Well, yeah, Lyle Overbeach pitched first time is a big league or first time as a professional never pitching the minors either.

And not the guy would have guessed. I actually always

back when I still rigged and why I never did it regularly enough to pull this off but back when I was occasionally

well more frequently in dugouts. I had this idea that I wanted to collect every manager's

you know position player pitcher option and

I would a I wouldn't have guessed Lyle Overbeach for the Brewers of Rene team

but be the Brewers of now used to at least two and this was as we talked about with Maldonado

I think came into was it a six run game and I was wondering whether that was too close to

to do this and whether the Brewers might

be pushing the limits of what's acceptable?

Overbeach awesome six run that's a six run deficit.

Interesting there've been it seem I wonder if the rate is up of position player pitchers this year. It seems like there've been a lot

but I was I was wondering that myself and I thought about I thought about looking

Yeah, but I didn't

So I'm watching because he's 37 you figure he's been on he's been in plenty of

potential position player pitcher situations and he's never been picked until now

How was he?

One one batter got an out and I'm watching it right now. It's 81 mile an hour

It's from the stretch. It's good mechanics 81 mile an hour fastball looks like a four seamer kind of has a little cut to it gets in on

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