Effectively Wild Episode 1204: Shifting Weather Patterns

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh, Jeff Sullivan, and Baseball Prospectus writer Russell Carleton discuss Russell’s new book, The Shift, banter about bad weather, Bartolo Colon, baseball’s unexpectedly competitive division races, Mike Trout topping one WAR leaderboard, Ronald Acuña’s (possibly) impending call-up, MLB’s low attendance so far, and a new Carter Capps imitator, then answer listener emails about Kris […]

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0:00.0	Oh go!
0:09.4	But so be
0:17.3	Hello and welcome to Episode 1204 of Effectively Wild a Baseball Podcast from Fangras,
0:35.9	presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer, joined as always by
0:40.9	Jeff Sullivan of Fangras.
0:42.3	Hello Jeff!
0:43.3	And today we are joined by one of the most frequent guests, if not the most frequent guests
0:48.9	in this podcast history, although it has been a while since his last appearance, Russell
0:53.0	Carlton of Baseball Prospectus, hello!
0:56.4	There it is, still got the old traditional Russell Carlton greeting.
1:00.6	Well you know, I am a creature of habit.
1:03.8	Yeah, so it has been a while we were just talking about that.
1:07.7	We attempted to have you on one time not so long ago, but schedules and conflicts got
1:13.3	in the way.
1:14.3	But you have been on many a time, we have continued to cite you all the time.
1:18.8	I feel like I'm citing some Russell Carlton research every other episode, so it feels
1:23.2	like you've been here.
1:24.2	But we had to have you actually here in person and are happy to have you here in person,
1:29.7	because you wrote a book.
1:30.7	Congratulations!
1:31.7	Thanks!
1:32.7	It's called The Shift, the next evolution in baseball thinking, I am holding it in my hands
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