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Effectively Wild Episode 2030: Deadline Dilemmas and Needs

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Ultimate Up-and-Down Pitcher

Tommy Malone has been up and down in 11 seasons including 10 straight seasons since 2020 was an impossibility. The longest streaks of consecutive seasons that a player has played in both the minors and the majors the record is 10 so quirky Miller from 2001 to 2010 he was in the minors in the majors each season Todd Green 1996 to 2005 and then Paul Shui 1994 to 2003 so those guys all did it 10 consecutive seasons now if you were to count 2020 and I don't think we can just make that a gimme because you never know if you would have been in the minors if there had been minors that year but if 2020 had had a minor league season then three guys would have had a shot

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