Effectively Wild Episode 1230: Our Cast is in the Jackpot
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the end of Steven Brault‘s strikeout streak, Brandon Nimmo‘s non-HBP, Jacob deGrom‘s and Mike Trout’s latest futile heroics, the Mariners’ luck, leaked umpire audio, Hank Aaron on bottle boning, the new-and-improved Jordan Hicks, Miguel Cabrera being done for the year, post-substitution ejections, and a clever college play, then answer listener emails about Manny Margot, lineup loopholes, technical fouls, LeBron James, and Steph Curry, a league of John Jasos, strikeout-free shutouts, doubleheader hangovers and the AL East, and AL fans vs. NL fans, plus Stat Blasts about players per team, teams with the most impending retirees, and MLB fathers vs. MLB sons, two more J.R Smith analogs, and two more DH updates.
Audio intro: The Drifters, "Jackpot"
Audio outro: Jon Auer, "Bottom of the Bottle"
Link to Jeff’s Brandon Nimmo post
Link to Ben’s article about the Mariners’ luck
Link to linked umpire audio
Link to the Gators’ trick play
Link to Ben’s Jordan Hicks article
Link to research on doubleheader hangovers
Link to research about player fatigue effects
Link to data on players per team
Link to data teams with the most swan songs
Link to data on father-son WAR totals
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| 0:00.0 | Because I hit the... |
| 0:02.0 | ...sharp home |
| 0:04.0 | Maybe you're really really really my... |
| 0:07.0 | I hit the... |
| 0:09.0 | ...sharp home |
| 0:11.0 | Maybe you're so fine |
| 0:14.0 | One little kiss from you |
| 0:18.0 | And maybe I do |
| 0:21.0 | I hit the... |
| 0:23.0 | ...sharp home |
| 0:25.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1230 of Effectively Wild Pay baseball podcast from Fanggraphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fanggraphs |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, hello |
| 0:41.0 | All podcasts must start and all streaks must end and sadly Stephen Brault's strikeout list streak |
| 0:48.0 | Ended this week, it's over, it ended on Tuesday |
| 0:51.0 | I couldn't even bring myself to watch or look at the details |
| 0:54.0 | Do you know who did the deed? |
| 0:56.0 | No, I was in the same boat as he was, as soon as it happened, then I was disappointed and I didn't want to know anymore |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, so he had a great run, it was, uh, I think it tied him for fifth all time to start a career in number of at-bats by a pitcher |
| 1:12.0 | He's tied with dizzy dean, I think, I think the most at-bats to start a career without striking out by a pitcher |
| 1:19.0 | Is Fred Hutchinson's 128, but that was back in 1939 or way, way back in the days when pitchers could actually hit a little bit and not everyone struck out the way that they do these days |
| 1:32.0 | So that was a fun thing to watch, but now, Stephen Brault's strikeout list streak is over, I'm trying to look up who it was who ended our joy just to see |
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