Hello and welcome to episode 895 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball

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I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538.

Join by Sam Miller of baseball Prospectus.

Hello.

Howdy.

I saw you tweeting about Christian Bethincourt yesterday, the Padres catcher who got into a game

as a pitcher.

If you were his agent, would you advise him to switch positions?

I think that he is probably a better catcher than most of us still think.

Like he's still young, he hit in AAA, he's still got, you know, some things going on.

So I will acknowledge that I probably, like most people, probably have a greater sense

of him being a bust than is anywhere close to fair or accurate.

So probably the answer is no.

That said, I would be surprised if he couldn't, I mean, I'd be very surprised if he couldn't

have a nice long career as a relief pitcher and those guys got money.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, he looked, he looked unpracticed.

He looked like a position player pitching kind of, but he hit mid-90s easy and he had a,

I don't even know what you would call.

Yeah.

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