Effectively Wild Episode 1038: The Player With a Permanent Head Start

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a Carter Capps mimic, several recently released Effectively Wild favorites, a baseball use for trampolines, and Derek Jeter’s prolific publishing career, then answer listener emails about a different kind of fantasy league, a player who can see slightly into the future, speed vs. velocity, a home-run/strikeout pitcher, spring […]

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0:00.0	Oh, please release me, let me go
0:06.0	Don't, don't, for I
0:12.0	Just don't love you anymore
0:18.0	Through waste I would be your slave
0:26.0	Oh, oh, please release me, let me go
0:34.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1338 of Effectively Wild A baseball podcast from
0:40.0	Fangrass, presented by our Patreon supporters. My name is Ben Linberg and I'm a writer for TheVinger.com
0:46.0	joined as always by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrass. Hello, bye
0:50.0	No more previews to do, just emails to answer. What do you have to talk about before that?
0:55.0	Okay, quick thing. I think I alluded some time ago to this unverified rumor that there was a
1:01.0	Miner League picture who attempted to copy the Carter Caps delivery. I think we talked about that.
1:07.0	So I checked with the Salem Kaiser Volcanoes. That's a fun coincidence. Checked with them and their announcer
1:15.0	About a little over a month ago and I asked might you have any insight into an unverified rumor that Nolan Riggs tried to copy Carter Caps' delivery.
1:23.0	Nolan Riggs is a presently 23 year old right-hander in the Giants system. He is enormous
1:31.0	Standing officially 6 foot 8, 235 pounds. Sounds like just a regular throwing motion might get him as close to the plate as Carter Caps.
1:39.0	But in any case, the team and the announcer could not confirm they said that there was news to them or whatever.
1:47.0	So I kind of let it die and then last night. What's that the second time you had inquired with that team or a team about something and your journalistic impulse had been thwarted?
1:59.0	Yes, because I had also talked to the Spokane Indians about the writing baseball off the Mount Sinhala der option of 1980. They're like,
2:05.0	Maybe we had a game canceled. You should know. It's kind of like a momentous. It's fine.
2:11.0	Okay, so I checked with the team and then they couldn't confirm anything. So I kind of let it go figuring, okay, unverified rumor, whatever. I just saw a tweet about it.
2:19.0	Well, last night I got a tweet from someone who responded to a tweet from February 23rd. So I have no idea how this even showed up in somebody's timeline.
2:27.0	But in any case, I'll just read this, I guess word for word. Quote definitely happened but got scrapped because of ball calls.
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