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Good morning and welcome to episode 708 of Effectively Wild, the once-in-future daily podcast of baseball

perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. I'm Ben Lemberg of Grantland joined by Sam Miller of

baseball perspectives. Hello. Hey, how are you? I'm sleepy because the trade broke in an

opportune time. Okay. For you and for Mr. Troy Chalewisky. Yeah, that's true. He didn't know. I didn't

know. No one told us. We both had a right to know. Yeah, you were both unhappy about where we were.

So before we talked about trades, we have a few things to discuss. One, did you see

Ellis Andrews throwing a glove at a ball? No, I did not. Well, that happened. So that was the thing

that we talked about not too long ago. There was a listener email about why players don't do that

more often or ever and we concluded that they probably shouldn't ever do that because there are

penalties associated with it that would, if it worked, it would not work. If it worked, there

would be a stiffer penalty and you'd be in an even worse situation than if you hadn't tried to

throw your glove. So he did it. He threw his glove. It was pretty close. I would say I think he

was probably a little late on the throw, but it was definitely online and Jeff Bannister was not

pleased about this throw. He said, my reaction is that I don't think that's the way we want

to play it. I think it was a momentary lapse of awareness. It's only the second time I've seen

it in my career. I don't think you will see it happen again here. So that said, the Rangers won't

be doing it again. He didn't say what the first time was. I'd like to know what the first time was,

but it was a nice little attempt. So we can add that to the list of improbable things that we've

talked about that have happened after we talked about them.

I was thinking, hey, I think it was going to be something much less obvious. No, it was, yeah, it was

exactly what we were talking about. One of our stompers does this in batting practice. No penalty

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