Effectively Wild Episode 1207: The 21-Topic Podcast

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In an unwitting tribute to Brandon Belt’s 21-pitch plate appearance, Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about approximately 21 topics, including the Mariners’ awkward, self-imposed Ichiro situation, Dee Gordon’s outfield conversion, Franchy Cordero, the ineptitude of the Reds, Mike Trout leveling up (again), Sean Manaea’s no-hitter and the increasing frequency of near no-hitters, two more […]

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0:00.0	21 and strong as I can be
0:04.1	I know what real means to me
0:08.4	And I can't give reason why
0:12.8	I should ever want to die
0:16.2	I've got no cause to be afraid
0:20.8	Or feel the life left-wing
0:24.9	Cause I ever watched the rise of the sun
0:29.2	I know that we are just good
0:32.4	Hello and welcome to episode 12-07 of Effectively Wild
0:36.4	A baseball podcast from Vangrass presented by our Patreon supporters
0:40.5	I am Ben Limberg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan from Vangrass
0:44.1	Hello, I mean, it's the last episode we talked about how pitches for play to parents are
0:49.4	are up this year and uh I think that Brendan Belt may have moved that average
0:55.5	All by himself on Sunday we got many emails and tweets and Facebook comments about this the Facebook group was
1:02.8	Monitoring the belt and
1:05.4	Hi May for ya at bat in real-time as he went up to 21 pitches
1:10.2	That is 16 foul balls 11 foul balls in a row
1:14.4	That was something to watch it ended in kind of anti-climactic fashion in that it was just a regular fly out to right field
1:21.9	You hope after all that build up that there will be a strikeout or a hit or something
1:26.9	But we got to fly out it was fun to watch and it was kind of impressive that free
1:31.5	I was able to throw that many strikes or very close to strikes in a row
1:36.8	I thought on a full count especially when you watch it kind of uh, you know in the
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