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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1215: The Giant-Catcher Club

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K 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 […]

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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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