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Good morning and welcome to episode 696 of Effectively Wild The Pretty Darn Daily Podcast

for Baseball Perspectives presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

I am Ben Lindbergh, Grantland, joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectives. Hello.

Hello. Join us Pretty Darn Always by Sam Miller.

Uh-huh. Stoppers Update. Stoppers are 11 and 1.

And that is your stoppers update. Yeah. So this has been a pretty big week for position

players pitching. Maybe the biggest week for position players pitching. I can check that in a

quick little impromptu play index. I did just do one play index because one of the position

player pitching appearances this week was Jeff Rankor who pitched 48 pitches, which seems

like a ton for a position player. Casper Wells. The answer is Casper Wells.

And. Think he topped it. Or you think he played for 48 teams?

No, he topped it. Well, I just searched for Baseball Reference play index has a in the game

finder. You can check is typically a position player. And you get a list of the games by

guys, pitchers who are typically position players. Unfortunately, Rick Ankeel is typically a position

player in the database. So you have to scroll past a bunch of Rick Ankeel starts to get there.

And then there's Jason Lane who was actually a pitcher when he pitched in a game and Brooks Keeschenack,

who was a two way player. So the number one position player pitching outing in terms of

pitchings is Jose Okendo, who threw 65 pitches in a 1988 game, a four inning game that was

75. Yeah, Okendo is was the answer to the trivia question for a long time in my life of the last

position player to get a decision. What happened in that game? That was his second career pitching. So he

threw three games in his career, one inning in 87, one inning in 91. And then in 1988, he

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