Effectively Wild Episode 1187: The Baseball Bounce Pass
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the Rays’ latest Tommy John surgery victim and the team’s potential plans for a four-man rotation, players’ decreasing IP and PA totals, exhibition-game walk-off celebrations, Marlins spring-training invitees, and Jon Lester’s new bounce pass to first base, then answer listener emails about lower-level clutchness, how quickly changes to the ball would be noticed, Shohei Ohtani’s underrated offensive ability, how teams could spend their way out of scrutiny by the Players Association, whether teams should swap outfielders in certain parks, how much MLB might expand in the future, Jason Heyward opt-out scenarios, a non-throwing Mike Trout, the value of a player who doesn’t fly for road trips, and how much experience helps players, plus a Stat Blast about league-wide spring-training rates so far.
Audio intro: Shout Out Louds, "Four By Four"
Audio outro: The Posies, "That Don’t Fly"
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| 0:00.0 | Even if I know that you're right, I still go on, I still go on. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1187 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fand Graphs and from our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:37.9 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fand Graphs. Hello, hello, |
| 0:42.4 | doing an email show today, but a few things we want to banter about first. And one of them, |
| 0:48.2 | unfortunately, for race fans, if there are any of you out there, lost another promising prospect |
| 0:54.0 | to Tommy John surgery, this time Jose de Leone now joins Brent Honeywell on the disabled list |
| 1:00.8 | for the rest of the year with a new UCL or will be about to. And this is interesting because |
| 1:07.9 | at the same time, roughly Kevin Cash, race manager told reporters that they are considering going |
| 1:15.5 | with a 4 man rotation all season, filling in with bullpen guys when needed. No, I don't know if this |
| 1:21.7 | is just because they have lost all of their other pictures to Tommy John surgery and they now |
| 1:27.0 | only have four left or if this is just a race style innovation or return to how teams used to do it. |
| 1:34.7 | And it's interesting because a few teams seem to be pursuing six man rotations as we talk to |
| 1:40.7 | Pedro about in the angels case on our last episode. And we answered a listener email not long |
| 1:46.1 | ago about whether a team might go back to a 4 man rotation sometime soon. And I think we acknowledged |
| 1:52.8 | why that might make sense, but also didn't really expect it to happen at least not yet. And maybe |
| 1:58.9 | we were wrong. Yeah, I guess this is partially also going to be a function of not there like six new |
| 2:04.5 | off days during the regular season, I think, is. Yeah, season starting a little earlier and has more |
| 2:10.2 | off days built in. Yeah, right. So it is interesting to have this going on because there are teams all |
| 2:15.6 | over the place that are talking about the six man rotations. Also eight man bullpen such that |
| 2:19.8 | benches are going to be about two people long. You wonder why Mike. Sochis doesn't have work. |
| 2:24.4 | Nine man bullpen in the Phillies case possibly. I mean, probably why Reese Hoskins and Tommy Joseph |
| 2:31.2 | are playing everywhere just because they just somebody has to. I don't even know who their backup |
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