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🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | You, you have your own special way. |
0:07.0 | A tiny watch and a face in the way that I've fallen on me. |
0:16.0 | To live a star. |
0:23.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1201 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
0:28.8 | Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I'm Ben Lindbergh of The |
0:32.9 | Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs. Hello, hello, I'm not gonna |
0:37.1 | mince words here. We're gonna talk about Shohyo Tani a lot on this podcast I think. |
0:41.8 | I'm not tired of talking about him yet. I hope listeners aren't tired of |
0:46.3 | listening to us talk about him yet. In fact, I have some stats. I don't know |
0:50.8 | whether our listeners overlap with Fan Graphs reading audience precisely, but I'm |
0:55.8 | sure there's considerable overlap. And Sean Delinar from Fan Graphs was just |
1:00.1 | telling me that so far this season, so since March 29th, Shohyo Tani is not only |
1:06.2 | the most popular player page at Fan Graphs. He is the most popular player page by |
1:11.6 | 5.3 times. Now that's double counting his hitting page and his pitching |
1:18.8 | page, which are split roughly evenly in terms of traffic to those pages. So if |
1:24.1 | you want to just count that as one, fine. He still has like 2.7 times as much |
1:30.4 | traffic to his player page as any other player does. And so I got notes from |
1:36.2 | multiple editors at The Ringer this weekend saying essentially, we can't cover |
1:41.0 | Otani too much. We can't overcover Otani. Not in like a cynical traffic grab sort |
1:47.6 | of way, although I assume that Otani pieces do well right now. And that's a |
1:51.5 | consideration. But just because he really is legitimately that interesting and |
1:56.6 | a sensation. And there's so much to say about him. And I don't feel like he has |
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