Good morning and welcome to episode 461 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

BaseballPerspectus.com presented by the Play Index at BaseballReference.com.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh.

How are you?

All right, prepared for another week of podcasting.

I didn't mean it that way.

This isn't anything else to say.

Okay, so do you have anything you want to start with?

I had a whole lot.

I suppose we could do updates of a couple of the things that we keep track of that only

we care about.

Well, let me go ahead.

Let me go ahead.

We talked about the three O swinging on three O.

We had a couple of weeks where that was a thing.

And I wrote about how it's not clear to me whether swinging on three O is a stat head thing to do or not.

Stat head thing to do because there doesn't seem to be a consensus among teams among sort of stat head teams and non-stat head teams about which one they do.

And it's all over the board.

And it's interesting to me that a strategy hasn't developed that's clear one way or the other anyway.

In this piece, I wrote about how the A's used to used to almost never swing on three O.

And David Forrest was quoted in 2008 or something like that saying that if his guys swung three or four times all year on three O, it was a big deal.

And Josh Donaldson was talking about how even if you hit a home run on three O, Billy would probably be unhappy with you for not drawing the walk.

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