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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 116: Has the Sabermetric Movement Helped or Hurt Jack Morris?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2013

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam try to figure out whether the sabermetric movement has helped keep Jack Morris out of the Hall of Fame or given him a better chance to get in.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I don't like want to like like I don't want to drive the conversation but if you make cookies I'll have what

0:08.8

Good morning and welcome to episode 116 of effectively wild the baseball perspectives daily podcast

0:16.8

In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach, California still sick even more sick than yesterday

0:24.6

Sam Miller hello, Sam. Hello. Hello, Ben

0:30.8

Hi, I think it's it's like it's all the

0:35.2

The ugliness and the controversy of the Hall of Fame has somehow rooted itself within you

0:40.8

It does it hurts my soul to see Ken Rosenthal and Rob Nyer sniping at each other on the internet

0:46.3

Yeah, and it's just it's manifesting itself physically

0:50.1

So then you should recover hopefully soon

0:53.6

Because this is probably the last time that we will talk about the Hall of Fame on the show for a while

0:59.0

um, I would think and

1:01.3

Pretty soon. No one else will be talking about it until we all rehash the same arguments next year

1:07.4

Yeah, this is basically the last time that anybody talks about anything for a while

1:12.4

And until the season starts, right? I mean, this is the last kind of conversation point

1:17.6

That of the baseball year. Yeah, I guess so or the first I guess you could say

1:23.2

um

1:24.4

Is there anything in general that you want to observe about the results which were pretty much what we

1:32.2

thought they would be based on

1:35.0

People who published their ballots beforehand

1:37.8

Do you know what this story is with Sandy Alamard Jr. Why he got so many I was um

1:43.8

I didn't see that address anywhere. I mean, I'm a

1:47.0

I don't mind the courtesy vote at all um, and so like uh, you know, the Aaron Ceeley vote is totally fine with me

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