Effectively Wild Episode 108: What Position Should Ian Kinsler Play?/How Do You Know When You Need a New GM?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about Ian Kinsler, how to decide when it’s time to change GMs, R.A. Dickey and the dome, and more.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 108 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball
0:14.2	prospectus. I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California. Ben Lindbergh is in New York, New York. Ben,
0:21.4	how are you doing? I'm very well. I'm I'm rested relative to usual. Yes, because you got to rest.
0:30.4	Yep, and we took an extra day off sort of or we weren't exactly sure whether we would take
0:35.8	boxing day off and in the end we decided to because it's an important day to rest and reflect.
0:42.8	Ben, what is boxing day? I don't know. Okay. It's a day that we didn't do the podcast.
0:50.3	Well, we have quite a show lined up. It's email Thursday this week and we've got a lot of them.
1:00.0	There goes a ring. My ring. Say you're wondering. And we'll get to some of them and
1:07.7	maybe I'll we'll see. So Ben, do you want to ask an email? Well, first I want to read about
1:13.3	boxing day. Okay. The exact etymology of the term boxing is unclear, which is why we didn't know
1:20.8	what it meant, I guess. There are several competing theories none of which is definitive.
1:26.0	So we don't know why it's called boxing day. There are several theories you can read about
1:32.3	on Wikipedia if you're interested. So yeah, we have many questions. I thought we would start
1:41.2	by kind of revisiting something we already talked about because someone sent us a question
1:45.9	related to it. Matt in Brooklyn said, hi guys in podcast 105, you discuss the impact of wind
1:53.2	on knuckleballers. It's a convoluted answer, but a study wind directed toward the pitches
1:57.7	preferable. The lack of spin exhibited by a knuckleball is what causes it to move inconsistently,
2:02.8	which causes it to be difficult to hit. Wind directed toward the pitcher increases the friction
2:07.8	and the amount of movement that can be imparted on the ball. It's the same basic concept as throwing
2:12.8	a ball with spin into the wind or an airplane taking off. The effect is an increase in drag.
2:18.5	As for the effect of pitching in a dome, I would imagine having a consistent temperature
2:22.4	and humidity will be helpful for Dickie's controlling of the knuckleball.
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