Effectively Wild Episode 110: Players with Criminal Pasts/How Much Do Pitcher Hitting, Fielding, and Baserunning Matter?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2013

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Ben and Sam answer listener emails about how players with criminal pasts should be treated and how much pitchers’ non-pitching skills matter.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 110 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball
0:25.6	perspective. It is episode one of the year 2013. Ben Lindbergh is in New York, New York. I'm
0:33.5	Sam Miller in Long Beach, California. Ben Lindbergh, how was your fiscal cliff? My end of the year was
0:42.1	nice. I live a few avenues away from Times Square but I was not in Times Square and I watched Friday
0:50.8	nightlights for the last five days or so. Really, what do you think of that show? I think it's great.
0:57.3	How far in are you? I finished it. I didn't watch the entire thing in those five days. I had been
1:02.7	watching it before but it is excellent. When I started it, I wasn't so sure because I don't care
1:09.0	about football of any sort, let alone high school football but it became not really about the football
1:15.6	pretty quickly so I enjoyed it. When I started it, I was very sure but the further and I got,
1:22.4	which would be probably around early season two, I suppose. I started to get a bit tired of some
1:29.2	of the same storytelling tropes over and over and found it a little bit of a burden to get through
1:35.9	and I was skipping some episodes by the end. So it's not a show that I really generally recommend,
1:41.4	although I enjoyed parts of it. I liked it more as it went on. Although season two, I know some
1:46.7	people didn't like because of some of the strange storyline, so I didn't. Yeah, I mean season two
1:51.1	was sort of horrible but yeah, I mean I thought there were structural issues that I started to
1:57.6	notice in season two in addition to season two itself also being the worst season anyway.
2:02.4	Alright, Friday nightlights. There we go. Today we're going to talk about just a few or perhaps even
2:09.6	a couple emails including one about pitchers hitting. So why don't you start reading?
2:16.8	Okay, you want me to start with the pitchers hitting one or the one that we probably will insert
2:21.5	more quickly. It doesn't matter to me. Alright, Mark sent us a question about our last episode.
2:29.2	When we talked about Josh Luki and how I don't know what we thought about whether teams should
2:34.9	employ him or not employ him or whether there should be any and against him or anything like
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