Effectively Wild Episode 1035: The Catcher’s Crooked Finger
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan share responses submitted to a smattering of recent topics and banter about whether old scouting reports have value to teams, then answer listener emails about MVP-vote streaks, Brady Anderson and ex-player executives, predicting pitches perfectly, middle-infield offense, Aroldis Chapman copying Carter Capps, non-traditional starting rotations, and more.
Audio intro: Ike & Tina Turner, "Finger Poppin’"
Audio outro: Mike McGear, "What Do We Really Know?"
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| 0:00.0 | I used to jump when you're calling I would probably leave |
| 0:03.8 | I had to plan every move Just to keep you pleased |
| 0:07.8 | No, I don't care no more |
| 0:10.5 | About nothing you do |
| 0:15.4 | So I'm for a job and we ain't no pain or profit all |
| 0:20.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 1035 |
| 0:23.5 | of Effectively Wild a fan-crafted baseball podcast |
| 0:26.2 | presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:28.2 | My name is Ben Limerick I'm a writer for The Ringer |
| 0:30.5 | And I'm joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs |
| 0:33.0 | Hello, hi |
| 0:33.8 | We had a lot of emails to get to and a bunch of follow-ups |
| 0:37.0 | Because somehow it seems as if no matter what we talk about |
| 0:40.3 | There is someone who has a pertinent anecdote to relate to us |
| 0:44.4 | Do you have anything else you want to talk about before we get into that? |
| 0:47.7 | No, that's good I do it |
| 0:48.7 | Okay, so we've got a Ryan Rayburn story |
| 0:51.6 | We've got a trampoline story |
| 0:53.2 | We've got a couple premature celebration follow-ups |
| 0:56.3 | Let me start about Ryan Rayburn |
| 0:58.7 | You wrote a post about Ryan Rayburn being the most volatile hitter of all time |
| 1:03.6 | with some minimums and caveats |
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