Effectively Wild Episode 1055: A Scorecard, a Save, and a Home-Run Reveal

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan talk to 18-year-old Effectively Wild listener/pitcher Connor Watrous about his heroic accomplishment of keeping score at an 18-inning Cubs-Yankees game, banter about a besieged closer and a Matt Albers milestone, and discuss the implications of a new development in the high-home-run-rate mystery. Audio intro: Alice Cooper, "I’m Eighteen" Audio interstitial: Sloan, "A […]

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0:00.0	I'm in pain and I don't know what I want
0:05.0	In sin, I just don't know what I want
0:10.0	In sin, I gotta get away
0:16.0	I've gotta get out of this place
0:20.0	I'll go running and out of space again
0:26.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1555
0:29.0	of Effectively Wild A baseball podcast
0:31.0	from Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters
0:34.0	My name is Ben Lindbergh and we're writer for TheRinger.com
0:37.0	joined as always by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs
0:40.0	Hello Jeff, hello, we're gonna banter a bit about multiple topics
0:44.0	then we'll have a real topic later on in the show
0:46.0	they're all real, I don't want to denigrate any of our topics
0:49.0	they're all important and special
0:51.0	but we're gonna have a little help with our first banter topic
0:54.0	we are joined now by Effectively Wild Listener
0:57.0	his name is Connor Watchress
0:59.0	and if you are a member of the Facebook group
1:02.0	you've probably already seen his post
1:04.0	Connor is an 18 year old high school student for now
1:07.0	although he is soon to be a University of Chicago student
1:11.0	and pitcher there so he's a player also
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