Here I am again, perfect time, streams ringing and words are rhyming.

I used to hate the fooling me, but only in the morning now I tolerate him all day long.

Good morning and welcome to episode 719 of Effectively Wild the Daily Podcast from Baseball

Respect is brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com, which I heard mentioned on WGN today

by Jim DeShay, so that was nice to hear. What context did he run a Play Index on the Earth?

They made reference to some fact that they had found or that they were hypothesized and they might

have found or something like that and said, gotta get the Play Index out for that.

True. Yeah, always useful. I'm Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectice along with Ben Lindbergh of

Grandland High Ben. Hello. And we're joined today by a guest, Jeffrey Paternostro, of

Amazing Avenue. He is their minor league editor as well as their podcast host. He is a, you know,

an expert on Metz development, the development of Future Metz. And so we had him on because we wanted

to talk about a Met who developed extremely well, Jacob D'Grom, who when we arranged this

interview was probably the second best pitcher in the National League this year or maybe the

third best pitcher, one of the three best pitchers in the National League this year. And then he

went out and he gave up Infinite Runs in zero innings. It felt like, actually, it felt like he was

in for a very long time given that he was allowing Infinite Runs. But it's the timing isn't great.

But he's still very good. He's still exceptionally good. And in my opinion, he is not just a good

baseball player, but he is himself a phenomenon because of his career arc. And nearly he was just

pitching to the Future scoreboard. That's true. The Metz scored Infinite Runs plus nine. So they won.

That's exactly right. Yeah, they did. They won 16 to seven. And his ERA jumped all the way up

to 2.29. His whip jumped all the way up to 0.94. He is still an elite ace level pitcher, a true ace.

And this was unthinkable a few years ago. And we had Jeffrey partly because Jeffrey saw him

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