Effectively Wild Episode 1171: Take Me Out With the Crowd
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about bullpen-cart feasibility, a listener crowdsourcing project to fill out the Effectively Wild Wiki, and the effect of starting an inning with a runner on second, then follow up on player volatility and knuckleball hits and answer listener emails about the historical significance of the Marlins’ latest firesale, the respective offensive ceilings of Didi Gregorius and Andrelton Simmons, the effect of this winter’s slow market on future extensions and high-profile free agents, the “Steroid Era” and aging patterns, and optimizing a legendary lineup. Plus a Stat Blast on low payrolls and a teaser for the sixth annual EW season preview series.
Audio intro: Eric B. & Rakim, "Move the Crowd"
Audio outro: The Jam, "In the Crowd"
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Link to Effectively Wild Wiki crowdsourcing sign-up sheet
Link to Effectively Wild Wiki crowdsourcing Facebook thread
Link to Mark’s extra-inning probabilities spreadsheet
Link to Kevin’s thesis on player volatility
Link to Ben’s article on the history of firesales
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| 0:00.0 | How could I move the crowd? |
| 0:02.0 | First of all, ain't no mistakes allowed |
| 0:05.0 | Here's the instructions, put it together, it's simple ain't it |
| 0:09.0 | But quite clever, some of you were trying to write rhymes for yen |
| 0:13.0 | But we got ideas, every tape my ears |
| 0:16.0 | Is this the best that you can make? |
| 0:18.0 | Because if not, then you got more outweigh |
| 0:21.0 | But don't make me wake too long, cuz I'ma move on the dance floor |
| 0:25.0 | When they put something smooth on, so turn up the pace |
| 0:28.0 | I don't want to sound, cuz I like to move the crowd |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1171 of Effectively Wilde |
| 0:36.0 | The Fandcrafted Baseball Podcast, brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:39.0 | And by me and Ben, I'm me Jeff Sullivan, writer of Fandcraft's Joined |
| 0:44.0 | As always by recently again to BaseballWriter at theRinger.com, Ben Lindberg |
| 0:49.0 | How are you? You've touched on an old beat lately |
| 0:52.0 | Which is the school-based articles this week |
| 0:54.0 | Two in one week, can you believe it? |
| 0:56.0 | I say to you who writes to a day, but yeah, still |
| 0:59.0 | It's like getting back on a bicycle |
| 1:01.0 | Or as we'll discuss in a moment, getting back on a bullpen cart |
| 1:04.0 | But yeah, you used a different number pronunciation format there |
| 1:08.0 | So for anyone who worries that we might be getting stuck in a rut after |
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