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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1081: The Not-Quite-Cold Call

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan discuss the correct all-time leaderboard of non-qualified offensive seasons, Carlos Correa’s complaint about Roberto Osuna, and the state of the race between the Brewers and Cubs. Then they call former big leaguer Glenn Borgmann, who caught for the Twins and White Sox from 1972-1980, to ask about being behind the […]

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I stand corrected.

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I stand corrected.

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Hello and welcome to episode 181 of Effectively Wildly Fan Graphs Baseball Podcast to brought

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to you and brought to us by our wonderful Hey Drunks Fortress.

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I am Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of The Ring Air Hello Benz.

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Hello. How you doing?

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Doing okay. How are you?

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I'm doing well. I'm excited because we just had a conversation with Mr. Glenn Borgman,

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formerly of the Minnesota twins, Chicago White Sox, and briefly of the Cleveland Indians affiliate.

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We had a question that we wanted to ask him for a, about a week and a half or so.

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But before we get to that, was there anything that you wanted to bring up?

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Well, first thing I want to correct the record on an email answer from our most recent episode.

0:59.0

This was a question prompted by Justin Turner and his success this season.

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He's an all-star now, although he is not a qualified player qualified for the batting title

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because he missed some time. And so we got an email asking about the best non-qualified seasons in baseball history.

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So I did some quick research as we were recording that episode to try to find that answer.

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Turns out that is not a great idea to do research while you're recording a podcast.

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So I missed my spreadsheet, got screwed up, and we got an email from listener named Ethan,

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who pointed out that Hanley Ramirez had an excellent 2013 non-qualified season.

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And he was surprised that Hanley hadn't shown up on my list.

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And that's because my list was in error.

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So I now have the correct list. And the guy I said had the best non-qualified season,

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