Effectively Wild Episode 1219: The Opener Arrives
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about baffling flamethrower Jordan Hicks, Rich Hill‘s latest blister problem, the Orioles’ unlikely 13-hit, zero-run game, Albert Pujols‘ prospects, Ryan Zimmerman’s slow spring training and slower start, and more. Then they bring on writer Joe Sheehan (23:23) to discuss the Rays’ “starting Sergio Romo” strategy, whether it will catch on with other teams, the evolution of in-game management, the optimization of bunting, batting orders, and bullpens, why analysis is no longer the province of small-market teams, whether smarter baseball is more boring baseball (and if so, who’s to blame), and how the evolution of baseball has changed baseball writing.
Audio intro: Smash Mouth, "105"
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Audio outro: Superchunk, "Smarter Hearts"
Link to Jeff’s Jordan Hicks post
Link to Bryan Grosnick’s “Opener” post
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| 0:00.0 | Hey you and your car in front of me |
| 0:03.2 | I got a message from you |
| 0:05.2 | Could you pass it on to |
| 0:07.2 | The guy sitting in the car in front of you |
| 0:10.4 | I skimmed a posin' along too |
| 0:13.6 | If we all drive 25 |
| 0:16.8 | If we all drive 75 |
| 0:20.0 | If we get faster |
| 0:21.2 | If we all drive a hard way to fly |
| 0:23.6 | We're good to have it all time now |
| 0:28.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 1219 |
| 0:31.2 | Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from Fangrass |
| 0:34.0 | Presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.4 | I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer |
| 0:38.0 | Join Betjez Sullivan of Fangrass |
| 0:40.0 | Hello Jeff |
| 0:41.2 | Hello Ben |
| 0:42.4 | Hello |
| 0:43.2 | So you know we're gonna be talking about Sergio Romo today |
| 0:46.4 | We got the tweets, we got the emails |
| 0:48.4 | We got all the messages about Sergio Romo |
| 0:50.8 | Yes, it is a very effectively wild-esque thing that the race did |
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