So every now and then you gotta be effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 897 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast for

Em Baseball Prospectus presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com.

I am Ben and Virg of 538 and I am Sam Miller with no, still doesn't.

You're really trying to make this work, trying to make it a thing.

I'm mostly what I just want is I want you to have a little, a little hesitation where you're not

sure. I like to be unpredictable. Yeah. Well for you. That was unpredictable Sam Miller

of baseball prospectus and I am assuming that he is okay. So I'm not even gonna ask.

We have a guest today. That guest is Mark Simon who is, he's a professional stat generator.

He is officially a Stats and Info publishing specialist at ESPN so he helps oversee the Stats

and Info blog and Twitter and he covers the Met's and Yankees and some of you might remember him

from baseball today, the dearly departed podcast that I know a lot of people have found effectively

wild as a baseball today substitute and I'm a former listener as well and he has now become

an Effectively Wild listener also and he has a new book out which is called Yankees Index and

we're gonna talk to him a little bit about that and some other assorted stories. His philosophies

about fun facts and maybe some players who are over and underperforming. Hello Mark.

Hi. Hi guys. Thanks for having me on. Yeah. Well thank you for coming on. So you tweeted

something and also emailed me something yesterday there was an ESPN Stats and Info fact via

Elias about the crazy Mariners come back on Thursday and this evidently has, it refers to a previous

comeback that has some significance to why you work at ESPN. So tell the story. Yeah. So for

you to talk fun facts, we have to talk fictional fun facts. Okay. You have this game last night.

This insane game that ended at like three o'clock in the morning the Mariners and the Paures

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