Good morning and welcome to episode 50 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast. Now in episode 50 of Up and In, Kevin and Jason lined up

Scott Horace as a special guest and on episode 50 of Effectively Wild I have lined up Sam Miller.

In the Long Beach, California and I am Ben Lundberg in New York, New York. I have spoken to

Scott Horace before. Yes, that's right. And you didn't think to to call to actions and see what

you could do. It wasn't it was not so that he could congratulate me on my success that I spoke to.

I remember the circumstances. So episode 50, do you have any words about the number 50? Yeah,

no, okay. Do you? Not really. It's a short show. It's hardly feels fair to pat ourselves on the back

for 50 segments this short. Yeah, it's 50 days. It's 50 days. Yeah, I mean,

yeah, 50 that's like two months. We've been doing it two months now. It's not that exciting.

Well, congratulations to us for sticking with this for two whole months.

Can I can I quickly address the ongoing controversy over aces in a post. Sure, we can just have a regular

segment. I have a theory that might not hold up, but it's a it's a little bit of a theory for

why teams with superior aces might not have a notable edge in the postseason as we've talked about

repeatedly. I wonder if it's the case that the better your ace the more likely you are to pitch him

on short rest. Therefore, diluting, well, not diluting, but diminishing his his actual greatness

and turning him into just a typical number four starter. That is an interesting theory.

We should look into it and we we should look and see how often that's how well one of

us should look into it. Yes, maybe one of us will. But yeah, that makes some sense.

Some sense. I don't know. It probably is. Closely types who don't pitch on short rest even

though they are the aces, but I guess on the whole the people that the starters that people would

consider the ace probably do tend to go on short rest more often than not in the playoffs.

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