Effectively Wild Episode 1088: Sabermetrics Meets Japan
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a Royals-Padres trade, Khris Davis’s arm, Keon Broxton’s demotion, Clayton Kershaw’s injury ,and the Dodgers’ degree of need for a starter, then talk to Shingo Murata, baseball strategy group manager for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (the team with the best record in Nippon Professional Baseball), about how he got a job in Japanese baseball, the resistance to sabermetrics in Japan, and Rakuten’s cutting-edge analytical efforts to optimize their in-game tactics and evaluate players both at home and abroad.
Audio intro: Graham Parker, "Discovering Japan"
Audio outro: The Spinto Band, "Japan is an Island"
Link to Ben’s article about sabermetrics in Japan
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| 0:00.0 | Just like in travel, motion, discover and compare |
| 0:08.0 | Discover and compare |
| 0:14.0 | Discover and compare |
| 0:20.0 | Discover and compare |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1888 of Effectively Wow, |
| 0:30.0 | a baseball podcast from Fangross presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:34.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh, up the ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangross. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi Ben. |
| 0:40.0 | A little later in this episode we are going abroad. |
| 0:42.0 | This is something that I love to do periodically on this podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | Talk to people who are interested in analytics and work in sabermetrics and some capacity in other countries. |
| 0:53.0 | We have talked a lot about this country's sabermetrics. |
| 0:56.0 | It might even be the main topic of this podcast. |
| 0:59.0 | But when we can talk to someone who does this in some far-flang region, that's always entertaining to me. |
| 1:04.0 | So episode 887, we talked to a sabermetration in the Mexican league. |
| 1:09.0 | And then episode 700, we talked to someone who does sabermetrics in Australia. |
| 1:15.0 | Episode 426, we did sabermetrics in Cuba. |
| 1:19.0 | And today we are doing sabermetrics in Japan. |
| 1:22.0 | We are going to talk to Shingo Morata, who does sabermetrics and analytics for the best team in Japan currently. |
| 1:30.0 | So that is fun. |
| 1:31.0 | And I had a Venezuelan sabermetration on the ringer MLB show once also. |
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