Effectively Wild Episode 1203: Bullpen Brawlers and Statcast Crossovers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a recent spat of basebrawls, Clint Hurdle vs. Javier Baez and bat flips, Shohei Ohtani’s latest heroics, what bullpens do during brawls, and a fun-fact-free player, then bring on MLB Advanced Media’s Mike Petriello (23:19) to discuss what’s new with (and next for) Statcast, the system’s growing pains and commitment to accuracy, writing for a league-owned entity, MLBAM’s philosophy about rolling out enhancements, the most exciting (and most overrated) Statcast players, why Statcast stats get released, the data imbalance between teams and outside analysts, how Statcast has changed the writing process, a Statcast quiz, and more.
Audio intro: Clem Snide, "Don’t Be Afraid of Your Anger"
Audio interstitial: D’Angelo and The Vanguard, "Back to the Future (Part I)"
Audio outro: Stereo Total, "Vive le Week-End"
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| 0:00.0 | So don't be afraid of your anger |
| 0:06.0 | I'll eat it with my stir than wine |
| 0:12.0 | And lick the blood off your lid |
| 0:16.0 | And lose on your hip when this pillow fight gets out of hand |
| 0:24.0 | When this pillow fight gets out of hand |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1203 of Effective Wild |
| 0:33.0 | The Fangerous baseball podcast |
| 0:35.0 | Brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:37.0 | We're wonderful. I am Jeff Sullivan |
| 0:39.0 | The Fangerous joint is always by Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer |
| 0:41.0 | Ben, we've had a lot of fights in baseball |
| 0:43.0 | Last few days it feels like |
| 0:45.0 | Really have. We missed a couple brawls |
| 0:47.0 | Right after we recorded the last episode |
| 0:49.0 | Maybe three brawls? I don't know. Three bench clearings |
| 0:51.0 | Two brawls. It's hard to say where the line is |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, players have their dander up |
| 0:55.0 | I guess maybe they're just mad that |
| 0:57.0 | Spring training lasted so long but still the season is longer and all the games are super cold |
| 1:01.0 | Maybe players are just trying to find a way to stay active but we had the benches clear a couple times between the red socks and the Yankees |
| 1:07.0 | There was maybe I think a slightly more interesting brawl in Colorado between the Rocky Mountains |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, Mount Charges. Always mixed things more interesting |
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