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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1067: Preseason Picks Revisited

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about another brawl involving a baseball, the still-sky-high home-run rate, and Jon Lester’s successful pickoff, then revisit their preseason playoff-team picks to decide which ones they would change. Audio intro: Sloan, "If I Could Change Your Mind" Audio outro: Elf Power, "Halloween Out Walking" Link to paperback edition of The Only […]

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0:00.0

I do what I do, can't I do what I give?

0:03.6

I've never been refined

0:07.6

But ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, baby

0:11.4

If I could change your mind

0:16.5

If you're a small step of mankind

0:21.4

If these planets are mine

0:25.4

Hello and welcome to episode 1067 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangrass presented by our

0:32.7

featuring supporters, I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrass from Seattle today. Hello. Hello. How's your weekend?

0:41.3

It's okay. At some point your body just tells you like to stop having beer and I appreciate that that control is within and that

0:49.1

It's very difficult for your body to allow you to go to excess. We'll just kind of chime in and say maybe have a glass of water

0:55.3

Do you mean once you reach a certain age or once you reach a certain number of drinks? Yeah

1:01.8

How's your weekend?

1:03.8

Pretty good. Alcohol limits didn't really enter into it. It was pretty pretty restful

1:08.7

So there were a lot of home runs hit this weekend. Yeah, really a lot of home runs like again

1:14.1

Like again, it just we would want in yeah

1:16.4

Even though we've adjusted our expectations every now and then there's just a barrage that recalls our attention to it

1:22.3

So on Saturday there were seven grand slams hit which was an all-time single day record and then on Sunday

1:29.4

There were five hitters who had multi-home run games including Freddy Galvesth who homered from both sides of the plate

1:36.1

so we're on pace now for

1:39.1

5,993 home runs and

1:42.1

The all-time record from the year 2000 was 5,693

1:46.6

So we're on pace to blow away the all-time record by 300 home runs and

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