I'll see you at this. I'll work up an offer. We'll think about it. We'll talk on the phone

later and that's it, no pressure.

We'll see what anything wrong here, Alicia. It's how America works.

Good morning and welcome to episode 600 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

baseball perspectives presented by the Playindex at baseballreference.com. I'm Ben Lindbergh

of Grantland, joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives. Hello. Hello. How are you?

Pretty good. How are you? All right. Good. So we had tentatively talked about having

a guest or two on today. Some scheduling stuff came up. We're going to do that next week

instead. So it's just the two of us just wrapping at each other about baseball.

Ending on a multiple of a hundred. Yeah, that's right.

I was good day and a week on a multiple of a hundred. I try to do that every seven months

or so or a multiple of 300. All right. So I mentioned Gabe Kapler the other day. We won't

talk about Gabe Kapler every day on this podcast probably, but I wanted to mention something

else because there was an article written by John Weisman at Dodger Insider. I will link

to it in the places where I usually link to things where he's talking about the Dodger's

winter development program. And there's a picture of Gabe Kapler at the front of a room,

full of minor league players. And he is lecturing them about advanced stats. And he and some

other members of the Dodger's front office are talking to them about how the team evaluates

them using advanced stats. And therefore they shouldn't be scared of advanced stats. And

this is exactly what we talked to Gabe Kapler about on episode 249 in July of 2013. We

had him on to talk about selling advanced stats to players. And it was semi-theoretical

then. And he is putting it into practice now. So that's kind of cool. I agree. All right.

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