Tomorrow I'll be quicker, I'll stare into the strobe light flicker in the floats I'll stay

But I'm quite alright hiding today

Tomorrow I'll be faster, I'll catch what I've been chasing after and have time to play

Good morning and welcome to episode 456 of Effectively Wiles, the Daily Podcast from baseball

Perspectus presented by the baseballreference.com Playindex, I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller

How excited are you to be saying an out of sequence or out of what how would you say it? A non-multiple of five number for the last time?

I was going to say if that excellent news for everyone at the end of the episode, but yes we will be taking off next Monday show

Which means that we will be back on multiples of five, we'll be ending each week on an episode number that is a multiple of five

What's it been seven months, eight months?

Can't have been that long, it's been a while though, but we were looking at a blissful June of multiples of five coming up

So that's something to look forward to if you care about that sort of thing

We have many listeners who have no idea what you're even talking about, that's how long it's been

We have a whole generation of new listeners who are completely baffled right now

And lots of old listeners who are still baffled that I care about this

Okay, so while we're alienating listeners, I guess we can do our daily update on Ryan Webb and Matt Alvers

We didn't get to do one yesterday because we had Stan Kantian

So Ryan Webb finished a game without a save on Wednesday, which takes him to 81 career

So he's now two behind Matt Alvers, the idol Matt Alvers, who has got to think that he's rushing back to try to preserve his lead

And I also experienced a moment of uncertainty earlier when I thought maybe one of these guys has had a save opportunity at some point and just blew it

Because Alvers has 18 career blown saves and Webb has nine and of course most of them are the kind of blown save that comes in the sixth or seventh or eighth inning

But you went back, what did you do? Did you come through game logs or something?

No, baseball reference, play index, play index trick that lets you look at a player's games and you can sort by decision

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