Effectively Wild Episode 1215: The Giant-Catcher Club
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a new newsletter about baseball debuts, Shohei Ohtani’s latest exploits, the pitiful state of the AL Central, the even more pitiful performance of Orioles starter Chris Tillman, pitchers’ perplexing lack of respect for the Braves’ Ronald Acuña, Ichiro’s debut as a bench coach and future in baseball, and the ongoing battle between the Yankees and Red Sox. Then (29:58) they bring on the three tallest catchers in MLB history—current Tigers catcher Grayson Greiner, former Brewers and Phillies catcher Pete Koegel, and former Red Sox catcher Don Gile—to discuss the perils of playing a smaller person’s position despite standing 6’6″, the skeptics they proved wrong, how their size affected their framing, blocking, throwing, and health, the evolution in the treatment and prevention of brain injuries, Koegel’s memories of Steve Carlton’s incredible 1972 season, and Gile’s memories of his teammate Ted Williams.
Audio intro: Passion Pit, "Let Your Love Grow Tall"
Audio interstitial: Harry Nilsson, "Jesus Christ You’re Tall"
Audio outro: Neil Young + Promise of the Real, "Stand Tall"
Link to This Week in Baseball Debuts newsletter
Link to Jeff’s post about the weak AL Central
Link to article about the Angels’ team name
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| 0:00.0 | Now they run are particularly fast on the pitch. |
| 0:04.0 | Down low for ball one. |
| 0:05.0 | A fast ball just missed. |
| 0:06.0 | Brawl's not missing by a lot when he does. |
| 0:09.0 | Is a effectively wild nature, I guess, right? |
| 0:14.0 | What is effective it is. |
| 0:17.0 | It's an action of cruelty. |
| 0:25.0 | An action of cruelty. |
| 0:32.0 | Time is the last to know. |
| 0:37.0 | I've been feeling so much fun. |
| 0:41.0 | I've been feeling too silly. |
| 0:45.0 | I've been feeling so much fun. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1215 of Effectively Wild. |
| 0:53.0 | A baseball podcast with band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:57.0 | I am Ben Limberg of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of band graphs. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello. |
| 1:03.0 | We have kind of a wacky one today, I guess you could say. |
| 1:06.0 | So let me explain how this came about and what's happening here. |
| 1:09.0 | This is kind of a high concept podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | But remember when we had Sam on a week ago and in the course of conversation I mentioned that |
| 1:18.0 | there are a lot of baseball players these days, bullpen's are big, it's hard to keep track of all the new players. |
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