Good morning and welcome to episode 78 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast. In New York, New York, I am Ben Linberg and in Long Beach,

California, you are similar. How are you, Sam? Good, Ben. How are you? Good, thank you.

We have a full show planned, possibly even a good show planned. It is a reader email show,

more so than yesterday's even, which was also a reader email show. So what we're going to do is

we're going to talk about one question, just the two of us, and then we're going to call Colin

Wires to talk about another question, and then we're going to call Doug Thorburn to talk about

another question, and we're going to do it all live, although it won't be live when you're

listening to it. So wait a minute. Yes. You're saying that we're going to do this in one take,

no edits. One giant. They are going to listen to the ringing of the,

yes, that's the plan. Okay, we'll see. This is like that scene in children of men.

You're right. Yes, it's our artistic vision for this podcast. It's pretty ambitious,

but we'll see how it goes. So the first question is from Kevin from Toronto,

at Flight Sam Geek on Twitter, and Kevin says, good evening or morning, Ben and Sam,

I've thoroughly enjoyed listening to your baseball discussions as I start my mornings,

whether they include crickets or not. My question has to deal with evaluating the performance

of a baseball coaching staff in general. It's been generally accepted that a manager is responsible

for maybe one or two wins over the course of a season. Growing up in the mid 80s and the early 90s,

I remember hearing many baseball people and broadcasters praising certain coaching staffs or

coaches for their expertise. Specifically, I remember the Oakland A staff of Dave Duncan, Dave McKay

and Renee Latchman being heralded for their skill in dealing with the team. Given the advent of

more advanced metrics, do you think there might be a way to quantify one coach's skill over another

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