Effectively Wild Episode 1103: The Wildest Card

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the AL wild card race, whether the Dodgers are doing anything wrong by using the 10-day DL liberally, then answer listener emails about packaging Pujols with Trout, Gio Gonzalez’s league-leading (but also not league-leading) WAR, the pitfalls of Statcast for pitchers, Steven Souza and home-run imbalance by handedness, […]

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0:00.0	teilweise
0:12.4	lifestyle
0:16.3	Hello and welcome to episode 1103 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fanegrass,
0:33.7	which is by our Patreons supporters.
0:36.3	I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fanegrass.
0:40.2	Hello Ben.
0:41.2	You have the AL Wildcard standings page never ceases to surprise me.
0:45.6	There's a different team I don't expect to be there every time I open this page.
0:50.8	And I seem to look at it every day or two.
0:53.1	The twins have a wildcard spot now.
0:55.4	I thought, yeah, they've had it for several days.
0:57.3	The Orioles are a game and a half back.
0:59.3	I thought we were done with these teams.
1:02.4	I had mentally put these teams in the nice first half, but let's move on portion of
1:08.5	my brain.
1:09.5	And they're back.
1:11.8	I don't know.
1:12.8	I mentally checked out on some of these teams, the Mariners are two games back.
1:16.9	They've never been very far away.
1:18.4	I guess it looked like the race were dropping out of it, but now they're back in it.
1:22.0	There's just, I don't know what to expect from day to day.
1:25.2	It's a constant shock to me whenever I go to this page.
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