Good morning and welcome to Effectively Wild the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus.

It is episode 90.

Ben, if we stop recording for the week, we can end this week.

Yeah, but as you said, we will probably miss some days soon for upcoming holidays and then we'll

be off-kilter again. Not if we skip those weeks. Yes, we could just skip strategically.

People will understand because of my fixation on that. It is email Wednesday.

We have some emails. Well, we have some emails. We say who we are and what we're doing here.

Well, I said the name of the podcast. Okay, that's enough.

All right, so we have some emails. We have chosen a few that we will read almost for the first time.

Yeah, and we will answer them as best we can. Do you want to read a question?

I do. This first question is from Scott from Cincinnati and he says, I was wondering if moving

Chapman to the rotation is the best move for the Reds. Obviously, there is no debate on

starter innings versus reliever innings, but I'm looking at this more from the financial standpoint.

And what is better for the Reds specifically? I believe Chapman has three years left on his deal.

Being left-handed, I am sure he would get a huge deal as a starter, even if he wouldn't meet

expectations. That probably puts the Reds out where they could be in the mix to make him a top-paid

closer. So my question is, would it be better for the Reds to have three seasons of Chapman starting

or another eight or so years of him closing? So now we are going to talk about the Reds.

And a starter reliever conversion question. Yes.

Well, I think that specifically he just wants to know whether, if I'm understanding the question

right, he's suggesting that perhaps the Reds could, in a way, sort of sabotage his value and

therefore keep him longer. Or sabotage his earning potential, I guess. Or is that what is, yeah?

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