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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1077: Strangely Slanting Fields

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about (and/or follow up on) Miguel Montero’s Cubs demise, philosophical Pirates quotes, Carter Capps, unusual ballpark constructions, jams and rallies, and target-based hitting competitions, then answer listener emails about extra-inning wins by wide margins, Jake Arrieta’s career vs. Brad Radke’s career, David Ortiz’s value, rampant base-stealing in single games, […]

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0:00.0

That story of my life

0:05.0

That's the difference between one and mine

0:12.0

But Billy said the both of those were evident

0:21.0

That's the story of my life

0:26.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1777 of Effectively Wild

0:31.0

The Peaceful Hot Test from Vangras presented by our Patreon supporters

0:35.0

My name is Ben Limberg with the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vangras. Hello.

0:40.0

Bye! Just before we started talking there were some developments in the Miguel Montero situation

0:46.0

Namely that Miguel Montero no longer has a job, at least with the Cubs

0:51.0

And I was planning on possibly bringing this up anyway because his comments were kind of interesting

0:57.0

So he was the catcher for a jk area to start

1:00.0

And there were seven stolen bases allowed

1:03.0

And so after the game he said it really sucked because the stolen bases go to me

1:07.0

And when you really look at it the picture doesn't give me any time

1:10.0

So it's just like yeah okay, Mickey can't throw nobody out

1:13.0

Yeah but my pictures don't hold anybody on, it's tough

1:16.0

Because it doesn't matter how much work I put on footwork and throwing and everything

1:19.0

Because I don't get a chance to throw

1:21.0

That's the reason they were running left and right today

1:23.0

Because they know he was so to the plate simple as that

1:26.0

So he completely just threw Arietta under the bus

1:29.0

And Anthony Rizzo had a comment on ESPN radio the morning after

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