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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1054: An Aaron Judge Appreciation Podcast

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Jeff’s preseason predictions, voiding contracts, and Matt Albers’ most recent close calls with his first career save, then discuss the contact-rate improvements of Aaron Judge and Joey Gallo, with an emphasis on Judge’s performance so far and potential for superstardom. Audio intro: Tom Verlaine, "Cry Mercy, Judge" Audio outro: Robyn […]

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0:00.0

Kroi Musa Change, this tear is going to see Kroi Musa

0:15.9

I think the verdict's coming

0:21.9

I guess you've got it some sweet tea

0:25.1

Hello and welcome to episode 1554 of Effectively While the Fangrefs podcast brought to you by our Patreon's

0:32.6

Fortress. I realize now that we have the exact same introductory words to this podcast Hello and

0:38.8

Welcome. I'm Jeff Sullivan of Fangrefs. Talking is always with Ben Lindbergh of The Ring or Hello Ben.

0:44.1

Hi, yeah, I've honed those words over a thousand episodes before you got here and started to open

0:49.6

yourself. It's really a Darwinian process. I really

0:55.2

welcome Hello. Strange things that you would say at the beginning of the podcast.

0:59.6

So yeah, we were just talking before we started recording about your boy, Keon Brockston,

1:04.8

who is starting to hit and if he does deliver and you say he's been one of the best hitters

1:10.7

in baseball since the middle of last month, which he started terribly, but your records looking

1:16.1

pretty good, right? Who were your guys before this season? You had Brockston, you had Paxton,

1:20.5

you had Hannager, you were like the low man on Giselleman, not because you hate Giselleman or

1:27.9

anything, but just because people kept asking you if he was suddenly the best pitcher in baseball,

1:32.4

and you kept saying no. So four for four on those guys so far. I don't remember any other

1:38.4

Jeff Sullivan preseason predictions that really stood out. I guess maybe you were higher on the

1:43.4

A's in the Angels than most people I remember. I don't know if there's anything else you were

1:49.9

flogging particularly hard. So we'll see. We'll see. On Brockston, if he actually continues the

1:55.2

hit, he still does strike out a bunch, but one thing that I do want to make clear, and this came

2:00.5

up in my Friday chat as well, is I know that people love to look at other people who make predictions,

2:08.4

maybe people want to give credit or cast aspersions to depending on how things go, but I would like

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