Effectively Wild Episode 1039: Is Defense Still Winning the Analysis War?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the end of the offseason, a Canada-only Clayton Kershaw, and Drew Smyly’s health status, then discuss whether the advancement of technology and the latest sabermetric insights still favor defense over offense, or whether hitters have started to even the score. Audio intro: The Mountain Goats, "Balance" Audio outro: Pete Townshend […]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1039 of Effectively Wild, a fan-grapzed baseball podcast brought
0:21.0	to you by a fan-grapzed baseball and most importantly by our Patreon supporters, I am Jeff
0:25.9	Sullivan of the fan-grapzed.com, talking as usual with Ben Lindbergh of the Ranger Hello Ben.
0:30.7	Hello. How are you doing? Doing okay. End of the week. Yeah. End of the week and this is our last
0:35.5	podcast of the off season. That's true. We have our first podcast of the, I guess, on season or as
0:42.2	it's more commonly referred to the season. How is your off season? Well, there was whirlwind I picked up
0:48.6	a podcast that I started to do very regularly. Went on a trip, did some hiking, definitely did all
0:54.6	of those things joined the mountaineering class that is taking me away. Yeah. How do you think the
0:59.3	baseball off season was? If you had to grade this off season as far as, I don't know how you would
1:04.9	grade an off season, but intrigue transactions, interesting stories. Was this good or bad? Well,
1:11.5	I'm not going to lie to you. It's been so long since actual off season activity. I sort of forgot
1:17.6	what happened. I know the free-agent market was bad. We know that much. There was no
1:24.2	Shohei O'Tani coming over. There was a CBA, but nobody actually cares about that. Yeah, not very
1:31.3	dramatic changes either. At least not all that interesting in the short term. I guess there was
1:37.8	speculation about whether there would be more trades because there was a weak reagent market.
1:41.6	I guess there were a couple interesting trades. Certainly the White Sucks trades were interesting,
1:47.0	but it was an okay off season. Yeah, he was fine at the most exciting. I don't think relative to
1:51.9	what we thought the standings would be toward the end of last year, anything must have shifted around.
1:55.5	There's the same favorites generally speaking. The White Sucks finally got off the pot, I guess,
2:01.2	or maybe they did the other one, more realistic. The White Sucks made themselves worse, which then
2:07.1	opens up the AL Central more to other teams. The Red Sucks picked up an ace to try to replace David
2:12.6	Ortiz, but maybe they're down an ace because we don't know if we can expect anything from David
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