Effectively Wild Episode 1221: Stay Strong, Ron
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the banged-up Mariners, Tyler Chatwood‘s wildness, the Astros’ record-setting run prevention, a Mike Trout milestone, Chris Davis and looking strikeouts, Ron Gardenhire‘s ringtone, Michael Taylor‘s walk-off face, settling a game with rock-paper scissors, bad closers, Nick Markakis, and more, then answer listener emails about strike sounds, “three up, three down,” Kyle Schwarber‘s defense, Shohei Ohtani’s home-run rates, starters as openers, famous players, bunting practice for prospects, Jordan Hicks and HBP danger, the “fair-foul hit,” intentional balks, and sunk costs, plus a Stat Blast about Colin Moran and a high-pitch homer.
Audio intro: Bahamas, "Stronger Than That"
Audio outro: Coldplay, "Bigger Stronger"
Link to Jay Jaffe’s Mike Trout post
Link to Ron Gardenhire video
Link to Michael Taylor face
Link to rock-paper-scissors story
Link to intentional-balk story
Link to ESPN’s world-fame list
Link to Jeff’s Colin Moran post
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| 0:00.0 | And I know you're afraid of falling flat. |
| 0:05.6 | And I know whose walls are up against your back. |
| 0:10.6 | And I know there are those who'd see a crack. |
| 0:15.8 | But I know that she's stronger than me. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 1221 of Effectively Wilde |
| 0:24.9 | a baseball podcast from Fangrafts, presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:29.3 | I am Ben Lundberg of the Bringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrafts, Hello Jeff. |
| 0:33.7 | Hello, but as you might have seen, deadspin actually. |
| 0:36.0 | Docs to me, my true name is George Whale. |
| 0:38.4 | So I might as well just come out and let everyone know. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm George Whale and George Whale have strong opinions about how wild Tyler Chatwood is. |
| 0:45.6 | Uh, so long as we've been doing Brian Mitchell updates, that's boring. |
| 0:48.9 | We were doing, I think, a few Chris Tillman updates. |
| 0:51.0 | He's not good. |
| 0:51.9 | Well, we should have a Tyler Chatwood update because Tyler Chatwood is doing some things |
| 0:56.2 | that I didn't think that starting pictures could do. |
| 0:58.8 | So Chatwood lasted eight outs on Tuesday against the Indians. |
| 1:04.2 | And he got eight outs allowed for runs. |
| 1:06.0 | That's one short of a season, half a run. |
| 1:08.3 | He had six walks. |
| 1:09.4 | He had a strikeout. |
| 1:10.7 | Good for him. |
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