Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh, with sweet blood, please, with the blood and the blood.

and welcome to episode 531 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus,

presented by the BaseballReference.com Play Index. I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland.com,

joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus. Hello. Hi. How are you? Okay. I apologize to everyone

for fumbling on yesterday's show. That was a football analogy. I was traveling and was a weight

too long and overslept. Missed my podcast date. We forgot to mention a comeback player of the

year candidates, Willie Mopeña, and perhaps Vladimir Balantine. Yeah, I don't know whether I would

say that we forgot to, but we did neglect to. Some people mentioned some good ones that we didn't

talk about who David Wright was one that was mentioned. It's a decent one. And Joey Vado.

Yep. Those are good ones. Sorry. I'm somewhat distracted by a play index unrelated to this show.

Ryan Webb finished a game on Monday. His 87th career game finished without a save. We were

notified by a few different people. One listener, Steve Wolken, was in attendance at the game

and was taking pictures of Ryan Webb's entrance and posting them to the Facebook group

at facebook.com slash groups slash effectively while he said it was the highlight of the game.

We got an email from listener Kevin Whitaker who pointed out, I will quote he says,

from a quick scan of his baseball reference game logs, this is the first game that Webb has finished

after entering with a four-run lead. So the closest he has come to a save, at least of the one

ending variety to date. I don't know whether, if it's, if it's not a save situation, I think they're,

are they are they all created equal or just the fact that he got a four run save or a four run

finish make him any more likely to get a save in the future. It seems significant. Four is almost,

I mean, you know, it's almost three. That you see setup guys get that four run nine a lot.

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