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Good morning and welcome to episode 503 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast for baseball

Respectus presented by the baseball reference.com play index I am Ben Lindbergh, a writer for

Grantland.com with Sam Miller, editor-in-chief of baseball prospectus. Hello. I bet. How are you?

Okay, so congratulations to Ryan Webb who won a game on a walkoff by many Machado. More importantly,

finished the game. The win is immaterial. All that matters is that GF next to his name.

That was his 86th career game finished. Somehow we neglected to mention that he finished a game

last week. I was not notified. I don't know how that happened. Heads will roll, but he is up to 86

in Matt Albers news. Matt Albers will throw a bullpen session this Friday and reportedly or

according to him. His shoulder is feeling quote, pretty good right now. So those are words that

would strike fear into Ryan Webb's heart. It's amazing how much the leaderboards change this year.

I mean, Webb started the year as just sort of something to mention so that the weirdo

Topek had a little bit of depth, but I mean Albers was our guy. The champion Webb was a distant

thought in a camp. Webb is running away with it. I don't know if Albers will ever catch him.

I mean, especially, you know, well, Webb has the okay, Ben, here's a here we can

don't look how old do you think Ryan Webb is? I'm not totally sure I can get within four years.

Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to say I'm going to say that Albers is older. I'm going to say that

Webb is 29 and I'm going to say that Albers is 31. Those are both good guesses. I'll say

29 sounds right. I'll say 33. Alright, let's find out. Ryan Webb is 28. He turned 28 this past

February. Albers is 31. Almost nailed it. I know my Webb in Albers. So that's the seventh

win. I guess you'd call that a walkoff win. That's the seventh walkoff win for Ryan Webb.

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