Effectively Wild Episode 1122: Frog in Our Throats
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about John Farrell’s firing and the Nationals’ will-they-or-won’t-they pregame routine with Stephen Strasburg, then answer listener emails about the definition of “veteran,” projecting a team to win 116 games, looking up players’ stats, a pitcher getting both a blown save and a save in the same game, the career leaders in innings played exclusively at each position, David Price’s Hall of Fame case, a semi-nonsensical baseball commercial, the potentially underrated Rick Honeycutt and why some coaches get great reputations, the difference (if any) between individual success and team success, and more.
Audio intro: Belle and Sebastian, "Funny Little Frog"
Audio outro: Lou Reed (Feat. David Bowie), "Hop Frog"
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| 0:00.0 | You're my picture on the wall, you're my vision in the hall |
| 0:03.6 | You're the random talking to when I can and from how I work |
| 0:07.2 | You are my girl and you don't even know it |
| 0:10.8 | I am living at the light of the bullet |
| 0:14.0 | I am the gesture in the ancient core |
| 0:18.0 | And you're the funny little frog in my door |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 11.22 |
| 0:25.2 | of Effectively Wild 8 Baseball Podcast |
| 0:27.2 | from Fangras presented by the trans supporters |
| 0:30.4 | I am Ben Bloomberg of the Ringer |
| 0:32.4 | joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangras |
| 0:34.4 | Hello, hi there has not actually been any baseball since the last time we spoke |
| 0:38.8 | Thanks to poor weather in Chicago |
| 0:41.2 | There has been baseball news |
| 0:43.6 | I guess we can briefly discuss the firing of John Farrell |
| 0:48.0 | before we get into our regularly scheduled email show |
| 0:52.0 | So the Red Sox have not really supplied any rationale for their firing |
| 0:57.0 | of John Farrell there was an extremely uninformative David and Braske press conference |
| 1:03.8 | which he essentially refused to explain why he fired Farrell |
| 1:07.8 | He said it was just sort of everything |
| 1:10.2 | He said you weigh everything when making a decision like this |
| 1:13.8 | There are things that you keep to yourself |
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