Effectively Wild 181: Giancarlo Stanton’s Lineup Protection Problem

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2013

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss how the Marlins’ lack of lineup protection has affected Giancarlo Stanton so far.

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0:12.0	Good morning and welcome to Episode 181 of Effectively Wild, The Daily Podcast
0:18.0	from Baseball Prospectus.
0:20.0	I am Ben Lindbergh, joining me is Sam Miller.
0:23.0	How was your weekend, Sam?
0:27.0	I don't have an assessment ready for you.
0:34.0	Okay, we'll think about it and maybe at the end of the episode or in a future episode you can let me know.
0:40.0	Okay.
0:41.0	We both wrote about the same thing for today at Baseball Prospectus and now we are both going to talk about the same thing that we wrote about.
0:54.0	And that thing is Giancarlo Stanton and his discipline stats and the way that pictures have approached him and the way that he has responded to their approach.
1:08.0	So I wrote a bit about the first part how he's been pitched and you mostly concentrated on how he has hit or tried to hit because he hasn't really done the hitting part so much yet.
1:23.0	So I guess I can start since my part of the article came first.
1:29.0	I wrote a couple of weeks ago right before the season started when Mike Redmond announced that he was considering Pocito Polanco as a cleanup hitter for the Marlins this season.
1:41.0	I wrote about how bad that would be basically just how historically terrible Pocito Polanco would be as a cleanup hitter.
1:52.0	And the sad thing was that I couldn't even conclude that it was like a managerial mistake.
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