Good morning and welcome to episode 596 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Pile.

I am Ben Lindberg of Grantland, joined today by Zachary Libbyn of baseball

prospectus, who was with us very recently and his back again already. Thanks for joining us again.

Thanks for having me. I always enjoy it. Joining me again, I guess I should say because the whereabouts

of your friend and mine Sam Miller are unknown. Sam is somewhere in Mexico. I hope that he will return

to us in time. I thought he'd be back today, which is why we push the email show back a day,

but he has not returned to us yet. I may have to go rescue him. Like Seth goes to rescue Ryan in

season 4 of DOC and brings him back safely from Mexico, but no, I'm sure Sam will. Sam will be back

probably in time for tomorrow's episode. I have a lot of faith in Sam's survival skill. I do too.

Although he's probably with his family, so he's got a wife and a small child to deal with, so that

probably makes it more difficult. Can't just fend for himself. So do you have any observations

about Hall of Fame voting results that we should mention just because we haven't had a podcast

since those results came out? Yeah, so I think for the third year in a row had to be off Twitter

during the announcement of the results, which is just a wonderful thing. Had to be. I was

making something like an imposition. Yeah, no, it was great. I was in a class yesterday,

pretty much all day. So I found out who won, who was elected, maybe 233 o'clock Eastern, and I

didn't really get a chance to look at everything until closer to 7 or 8 p.m. And really the two things

that struck me, and I have no idea if this is something that everyone said for five hours before

I got out there. But it was the difference between Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez,

which the five percentage point or six percentage point difference between those two guys, which

I get tweeted this out and all I got back was win. So yeah, maybe. And then the one, I don't

I never care about the down ballot guys. But the one that really surprised me was, it was no more

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