Effectively Wild Episode 1023: Mike Trout, But Backward

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a Steven Matz tweet, the Reds and Ryan Raburn, and the automatic intentional walk, then answer listener emails about misleading headshots, pitchers who rely on one pitch, the decline of player nicknames, the Yankees’ refusal to lose, Josh Reddick’s lack of clutchness, making Mike Trout run backward, and […]

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0:00.0	I'm pushing know how whole feels, ain't even on my whole field
0:04.3	Then again I'm the lost
0:06.8	Huh, what's not a cruiser about us here?
0:09.9	Again I'm the lost
0:12.8	And I refuse to be stuck right here
0:15.5	Yeah, I don't want to work out girls and all
0:22.0	And somebody just give me, and somebody just give me
0:25.4	And somebody just give me direction
0:27.7	Hello and welcome to episode 1023 of Effectively Wild
0:32.4	a baseball podcast from Bandgrass. My name is Ben Lindbergh. I'm writer for The Ringer.
0:36.7	I joined as always by Jeff Sullivan of Fitgrass. Hello Jeff.
0:39.7	Good morning. Doing an email show, but I anticipate a bit of banter
0:43.5	before we get to the questions. So first one for you, we've been talking about some strange
0:49.9	injuries lately and weird risk factors for MLB players. We've talked about
0:55.1	trampolines. We've talked about falling through the roofs of barns
0:59.4	And there's a new entrant in this injury genre. Did you happen to see
1:05.3	Steven Matz's tweet yesterday? I did not. You don't follow Steven Matz.
1:11.0	You're really missing out. I'm going to send you a link so that you can
1:15.2	click on it now and just give me your initial
1:18.6	gut reaction to the activity Steven Matz is performing here.
1:23.3	Oh my god. Oh my god. That's a shark. That's basically what I would say.
1:29.2	If I were to say the Alderson, I suppose so. This is a picture of Steven Matz,
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