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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1170: Are the Robots Ready?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Nori Aoki’s return to Japan, Vladimir Guerrero’s swing rate, Franchy Cordero’s power/speed skills, spring training for free agents (again), and Melky Cabrera, then bring on Baseball Prospectus Director of Technology Harry Pavlidis to explain BP’s latest pitching-themed analysis, featuring robot umpires’ feasibility, desirability, and potential effects on offense; classifying pitchers and measuring stamina and command; and tunneling and deception.

Audio intro: Unlikely Friends, "All the Cameras in Japan"
Audio interstitial: Andrew Bird, "Not a Robot, But a Ghost"
Audio interstitial 2: Damon Albarn, "Everyday Robots"
Audio outro: Super Furry Animals, "Sex, War, and Robots"

Link to Jeff’s Vladimir Guerrero Post
Link to Jeff’s Franchy Cordero post
Link to BP’s robot umps article
Link to BP’s pitcher-classification article
Link to BP’s pitch-tunneling article

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0:00.0

Everybody's looking at me like they know me

0:07.0

There is so much they don't see

0:15.0

All the cameras in Japan couldn't photograph

0:21.0

The light and the way the colors leading to one

0:26.0

To make our got sun

0:29.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1170 of Effectively Wild

0:34.0

A baseball podcast from Fandgrass presented by our Patreon supporters

0:38.0

I am the Linderg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fandgrass

0:42.0

Hello, so most of this episode will be an interview

0:46.0

Baseball Perspectives is in the midst of a pitching week

0:49.0

That's what they're calling it, hashtag Pitching Week

0:52.0

I believe, so we will be talking to Harry Puffletis

0:55.0

The Director of Technology at BP about robot UPS

0:59.0

And about classifying pictures in a new way that BP is doing it

1:03.0

And pitch tunneling lots of interesting analysis stuff

1:06.0

We'll get to that in a few minutes

1:08.0

But few things we wanted to banter about before we get there

1:12.0

I guess we could start, I've received many tweets and messages of condolence about Noreooki

1:19.0

Leaving Major League Baseball to co-opak to NPV

1:22.0

I don't know exactly how I got associated with Noreooki

1:26.0

But for some reason I get tweets every time something happens to Noreooki

1:30.0

I think it's because I've been complimentary about him in the past

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