Effectively Wild Episode 1096: Pivoting to Pivot Tables

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan talk to 17-year-old Jack Dumoulin, the first American winner of the Microsoft Excel World Championship, about how baseball stats helped him get good at spreadsheets, his high-school baseball career, how he won the championship, and his dream of working for an MLB team. Then Ben and Jeff answer listener emails […]

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0:00.0	And you know I'm gonna try my heart out every day
0:06.3	It's in this life
0:08.9	You gotta wanna come to play
0:12.5	You gonna make it up
0:16.0	You gonna make it up to you
0:20.1	You gotta make it up
0:23.5	Say the gotta break it up to you
0:26.5	Hello and welcome to episode
0:28.7	1096 of Effectively Wildly Baseball Podcast
0:32.4	from Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters
0:35.5	I am Dan Leverg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan
0:38.6	of Fan Graphs who is now back in Portland, Hello Jeff
0:41.9	Hello, Mike Trout is within eight tenths of one win
0:44.7	above replacement to first place among positional players
0:47.3	Goodness, he's in third place
0:49.7	It's Judge Nal Tueve tied at six
0:51.9	and Trout is at 5.2
0:53.4	He hit a tie-breaking game winning three-run double
0:55.7	last night to defeat the Seattle Mariners who had a double whammy of an evening
1:00.1	He's really gonna do it
1:01.3	It seems almost inevitable at this point that he will do it
1:04.7	I am surprised but also not at all surprised
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