But there's no one perfect in this universe

And oh you, can I win?

Don't try and teach me the way

Cause if you want me, you take me far

What I'm worried, you want me, you take me for what I'm worried

Good morning and welcome to episode 489 of Effectively Wild

The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus, presented by the baseball reference play index

I am Ben Lindbergh joined by Sam Miller

Hello, hello, Brad Penny, almost back

To use promoted from Singlae to AAA

Even though he went O into with the 5-ERA and single his two single A starts and

Struck out four batters and 10 and 2 thirds

But he is, he's close

Cause he's approaching his opt-out date with the Marlins so they brought him up to evaluate him to decide whether he is worthy of promotion

Huh, I see now that Brad Penny has a Japanese stats page

What's on it?

He pitched in Japan in 2012 and made only one start

He flew all that way for one start

And that one start went very poorly

He gave up six runs, he walked three batters and three innings with one strike out

He faced 19 batters and retired about half of them

And left with a 10.8 ERA

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