Good morning and welcome to episode 46 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast in New York, New York. I am Ben Lindbergh and in

Long Beach, California, where the crickets are quiet. It is similar. So Miguel

Cabrera, Homeward again, the way you're just jumping right into it. No, no.

Cabrera, Homeward again, the Orioles and Mariners are locked in another

extra inning game. I see. So everything that is one day old is new again. I'm

sorry, I didn't mean to step on your introduction. That is quite all right. And Ryan

Howard had a clutch home run inspired by your article. Yeah, except my article

was limited to Babip. So I can't really take any credit for home runs that he

hits in clutch situations. So what's your topic? Mike Traut. Okay, well then mine

is sort of similar or at least it involves Mike Traut and it also involves

Miguel Cabrera again and it is the AL MVP debate. Oh good. So I don't know where

it makes sense to start. Is yours directly directly related to the MVP? No, mine's

not related to the MVP at all. Why don't we just start with yours and it will bleed

into my discussion about Mike Traut. Okay, so when I woke up yesterday, the

internet, or actually I never really went to sleep, but when I returned to

Twitter, the internet was already a Twitter, I guess you could say, about the

AL MVP debate, which is suddenly a debate after looking for a lot of the

season like it wouldn't be one. Of course, Cabrera is making a strong push for

the triple crown award as we talked about yesterday. And Mike Traut has

cooled off a little bit in September and so that has kind of created an opening

for people to to have a debate where once there wasn't one. Today, by the way,

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