Maybe my love could fly over the ocean.

Maybe my heart should try to leave him alone.

All that I really know is that he's going to pop him dad says to close the hall.

Good morning and welcome to episode 666 and effectively wild.

The daily podcast from baseball perspectives brought you by the Play Index

at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, hi Ben.

Hello. How are you? Quite well.

Excellent. I used to play index day but I forget why. Anyway, good.

You're doing well huh? Yeah. Anything new?

Well do you remember at the end of last year when we were doing Eric Krets watch

to see when Eric Krets would play and the answer was never?

Because Salvador Perez set the record for most innings caught in a season,

including postseason. And Eric Krets didn't start a game in September.

I don't think he was on the roster the whole time. He got into three games but he didn't start one.

And then he and Salvador Perez both went on that exhibition trip to Japan

and we were joking about whether Eric Krets would play over there or whether he was just going for the sightseeing.

And so far this year, I was kind of curious to see how often Eric Krets would play

whether Yost would ease back on Salvador Perez a little bit.

So far, Krets has started one game. He has gotten into three.

He has caught a total of nine innings to Perez's 153 and two thirds

that's heading into Monday night's game. So if we were to...

So he's caught essentially an 18th of the Royals innings to this point.

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