Hello and welcome to effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball

prospectus. I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California with Ben Lindbergh in New York

New York. Ben, how are you? Thank you. How are you? Good. Did it rain where you

were? Nope, not at all. I mean either. Did it rain in Detroit

extensively after the rain out? Because it didn't rain at all before the

rain out and then I stopped paying attention to the weather in Detroit. So you

think that the rain out helps the tigers. So maybe it's a conspiracy. I think the

first part is true. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a conspiracy. But I do

think it helps the tigers. I mean, not that the Yankees had or have much of a

chance in the series anyway, but it does hurt them in that if there hadn't been a

rain out and they had managed to extend the series to a seventh game, they

would have had CCC sabathea on short rest, which as we discussed recently, he

does not seem to be affected much by starting on short rest. So as it is, he

will only be able to start once on full rest and then they will have to cobble

together that seventh game somehow if they get there. Of course, they would be

thrilled to get there and have to figure out what to do. But it would be they'd

have to choose either to go with Hughes if he's healthy enough or if he's not

to disable him and activate Ivanova, in which case they'd lose Hughes for the

World Series, or they could start David Phelps or they could go with some sort of

all bullpen arrangement, but either way, you're missing the obvious solution.

What's that? shorter rest. Sabathea? Yeah, just shorter and shorter. They ruled

that out. Did they really? Wow, I didn't even. Yeah. I mean, maybe he could pitch

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