Effectively Wild Episode 1208: The Acuña Cometh
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Ronald Acuña’s debut and the Braves’ pivot to position players, the history of Peter Bourjos losing his job, Eric Lauer’s less heralded/distinguished debut, Kazuhisa Makita, the Angels maxing out their mound visits, and the state of Shohei Ohtani hype, follow up on outfield bobbling and baserunner blocking, and then answer listener emails about teams forfeiting, when homers caught up to triples for good, the Aroldis Chapman-Gleyber Torres trade, the value of long plate appearances, adding an extra plate umpire, a consistently inconsistent umpire, bad pitchers with good K:BB ratios, a visiting-team hypothetical, and the deceptive Rockies offense, plus Stat Blasts on two-strike hitting, foul outs, and performance vs. relievers.
Audio intro: Joe Walsh, "Welcome to the Club"
Audio outro: Everclear, "One Hit Wonder"
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| 0:00.0 | inside and on the hands of |
| 0:06.0 | Marwin and it's three and one |
| 0:09.5 | Otani hasn't had his best |
| 0:11.9 | commandal by 36 strikes 31 |
| 0:15.2 | out of his own effectively |
| 0:18.4 | wild. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 12 |
| 0:37.8 | 08 of Effectively Wild, a baseball |
| 0:39.8 | podcast from Vengras presented by our |
| 0:42.1 | Patreon supporters, I am Ben |
| 0:43.8 | Limbert of the Ringer joined by Jeff |
| 0:45.7 | Sullivan of Vengras. Hello! Hi Ben! |
| 0:47.7 | Just before we started recording, Ronald |
| 0:49.9 | Acunia officially made his majorly |
| 0:51.9 | debut, he lined out to center and |
| 0:55.0 | he is starting against the reds. I |
| 0:57.0 | feel like that should be kind of the |
| 0:58.6 | way that you ease every prospect |
| 1:00.5 | into the majors. It's just they have |
| 1:02.2 | to debut against the reds and reds |
| 1:04.2 | pitching just make them feel comfortable |
| 1:06.4 | like they never even really left |
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