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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1059: Is Your Bat Boned?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a mid-start adjustment by Clayton Kershaw and answer listener emails about what constitutes a “jam,” pitchers who’ve allowed the most first career hits, how to analyze player problems and improvements, team abbreviations, hitters who homer and bunt, left-handed infielders, whether bats could be causing the home-run surge, and […]

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0:00.0

3-0-5, watch around, just don't take what you need

0:03.8

I'm telling Barry knows, committed it, smarter the rest and free

0:07.7

Crawled with me and drove the monorob's racket to no grave

0:11.4

I'm deep inside your soul's rhythm, but sway you in my name

0:19.8

Hey, hey, what's the name of the world?

0:23.5

Hello and welcome to episode 1059 of Effectively Wild

0:28.1

We're just about podcast from Fangas presented by our Patreon supporters

0:31.9

I'm Batman Burke of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangas

0:35.6

And you are hearing the strains of sleep now in the fire by rage against the machine

0:41.3

Which as number of people informed us is Matt Albers' entrance song

0:46.4

And I would say a pretty good choice. How are you?

0:48.8

I'm doing well, how are you?

0:49.8

Alright, we're gonna do emails in just a second

0:53.4

But a bit of banger before we get to that

0:55.8

I want to talk about Clayton Kershaw

0:57.8

Because I wrote about him earlier this week and there is breaking news about him

1:02.7

Because as we speak he is just completed throwing seven shutout innings against the giants

1:08.5

So this article was prompted by an email from one of our Patreon supporters

1:13.7

Michael who noticed that Kershaw had changed the way he was throwing a slider in the last three innings of his start last Friday

1:23.3

First I'll just say that Kershaw Slider has been his best pitch or at least if you look at pitch type run values

1:30.2

And that sort of thing it has been his most devastating weapon and probably the most devastating slider

1:35.8

In baseball over the past few seasons

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