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Hello and welcome to episode 933 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast for baseball perspectives presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com. I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives. Hello.

Hello. We're going to do a related email show today. Anything you want to talk about before we do? No. All right. Straight into emails. We've got a bunch of good ones. We can get through most of them today. Let's start with Corey who says, branching off your world's Chapman discussion earlier this week. I wanted to further the conversation on elite closers slash relievers. Prior to the All Star game, a few media members went on rent that centered around relievers and closers with 40 to 100

earnings pitched of good to great performance. While I can understand the argument, where's the cutoff? When do we call them elite? Yesterday when mentioning elite level closers, you brought up Chapman, Kimberl, Jensen, and Davis. You aren't the only ones who use this group as the Mount Rushmore of Closers. But what would it take for you to replace a Zach Britain with a Kimberl, for example, seemingly going under the radar. Britain has progressed from two great seasons in 2014 to 2015 to having one of the best seasons of all time so far in 2016.

I just wanted to hear your thoughts on what sample size you need for great and or poor performance to change the faces in your groups of elites.

I do feel like we use at least on this podcast we use elite reliever in the sort of squishy, not actually literal necessarily more symbolic than anything. Perhaps a way that number one starter is sometimes used.

Yeah.

And that you are, I don't know,

that it, like for instance, Craig Kimberl,

you know, is one of the names that we listed.

And would I swap out the next inning

that Zach Britton throws for the next inning

that Craig Kimberl throws is a,

somehow a different question than whether Zach Britton

is elite and whether Craig Kimberl is still elite.

Because there's like the whole point of relievers

is that lots of them are elite today.

Like they're all capable today.

Like I always felt this way when I was golfing.

I would, like I could, I probably used this,

probably used all of them.

But I would hit a perfect shot.

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