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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1061: Losing Lucroy

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the White Sox signing Luis Robert, the Twins’ turnaround, and small-sample successes such as Anthony Swarzak and Chad Pinder, then discuss Jonathan Lucroy’s perplexing defensive decline and the state of catcher framing in 2017. Audio intro: Of Montreal, "Rose Robert" Audio outro: Brian Eno & John Cale, "Empty Frame" Link […]

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0:00.0

Rose, rug bear, I'd like to welcome you to our affair

0:06.0

We're right, a lovely little story just you and I

0:10.5

As time goes by me and my rose reverts

0:14.5

People stand when we walk, garment, arm along the thoroughfare

0:21.0

The gentlemen don't know whether to bow the heads or tip the hats instead

0:26.5

But I mean Rose, rug bear, Rose, rug bear

0:31.5

Hello and welcome to episode 1061 of Effectively Wild

0:36.5

The baseball podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters

0:40.5

My name is Ben Lindberg and I'm ready for the ringer

0:43.5

And I'm joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrass

0:45.5

Hello, hi, what's on your mind?

0:47.5

Well let's see, we have a little bit of, well, we just discussed prepogest

0:51.5

It's not Louis, Rebear, it's I guess Louis Robert follow up

0:55.5

Yes, as I saw reported on Twitter evidently that's not what I would have gone with but his prerogative

1:03.5

Yeah, I kind of, I like him less now just as a player I feel like in my head I feel like he's worth less just because

1:10.5

Louis Robert doesn't sound like the name of a successful athlete but I guess neither is Albert Pooholes

1:16.5

Here we are, Louis Robert, God, I can't even say that

1:20.5

He's a Cuban teenager, he has been discussed before I just wanted to bring him up

1:24.5

He has some place in I guess effectively wild lore because if I can find this old quote

1:30.5

We talked about him before when he was available there were two quotes from Scouts 1 saying that the 19 year old was quite a 5-tool guy

1:38.5

That can be in the big leagues soon and there was another evaluator that said quote

1:44.5

Robert, Robert, God, it's just, it's not, it doesn't work

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