Effectively Wild Episode 1073: The Plus-Plus Podcast
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the results of Jeff’s survey about what constitutes a “jam,” Justin Verlander’s comments about the height of baseball seams, and a Mike Chernoff quote about working in baseball, then talk to writer Joe Lemire about his glossary of scouting terminology, the evolution of scouting, and the unbreakable link between baseball and Marriott hotels.
Audio intro: Jackie Lomax, "Sour Milk Sea"
Audio outro: Willie Nelson, "Red Headed Stranger"
Link to Jeff’s jams post
Link to Joe’s scouting glossary
Link to Joe’s Marriott article
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| 0:00.0 | Get out of the side of the scene, you're floating on there. |
| 0:07.0 | Get back to where you should be, |
| 0:12.0 | where I'm going on there. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and welcome to Episode 173 of Infectively Wild, |
| 0:20.0 | a baseball podcast from Fengaraffes presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:24.0 | My name is Ben Lindbergh, I'm a writer for TheRinger.com |
| 0:27.0 | I joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fengaraffes. Hello Jeff. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello Ben. The results are in. You know what a jam is, |
| 0:33.0 | or what the internet thinks a jam is sort of. |
| 0:36.0 | Sort of. |
| 0:37.0 | Give us the results. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, I can try to do it. It's a little complicated because there is no clear dividing line, |
| 0:42.0 | not that I think one could ever think that there was. |
| 0:45.0 | But, Jams, at least according to the community voting results at Fengaraffes |
| 0:50.0 | from last week, seem to require there to be multiple base runners. |
| 0:55.0 | There's not a good link at all to high leverage situations, |
| 0:59.0 | which makes sense because one scenario where I quizzed the audience |
| 1:03.0 | was bottom of the ninth home team is down by a run. |
| 1:05.0 | There is a runner on first and nobody out. |
| 1:07.0 | That is a very high leverage situation. |
| 1:09.0 | The leverage index for anyone who knows about that is 5.4, |
| 1:13.0 | which means it's about 540 percent more, I don't know, |
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