Effectively Wild Episode 1231: Chasen the Dream
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan follow up on Terry Collins, trick running plays, Steven Brault‘s disappointing strikeout, the Mariners, and Justin Miller, banter about Takuya Nakashima’s 200th career sacrifice bunt, the Astros’ enviable depth, the most exciting rookies of 2018 (including Juan Soto, Gleyber Torres, Walker Buehler, and Adam Cimber), and MLB’s attendance decline, and talk to Hans Van Slooten about his years building and maintaining Baseball-Reference.com as Sports Reference’s manager of baseball operations, his decision to accept a new job as a baseball systems developer with the Minnesota Twins, the pros and cons of working for an MLB team, writing words vs. writing code, the differences between public and private and big and small(er) data, how Baseball-Reference adds (or doesn’t add) information, the expanding Sports Reference empire, his favorite finds on B-Ref, Barry Bonds’s WAR, comparing current players and long-retired players, how the “opener” strategy and Shohei Ohtani affected the site, and how to have his job.
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Link to Takuya Nakashima t-shirt photo
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| 0:00.0 | All the kill, all the view, all the magic body, all the beauty, all of you, all the |
| 0:04.9 | universe, all the universe body, to my sin to go beyond, put it through my bed, to my |
| 0:11.9 | sin to go beyond, heaven be insane, to my sin to go beyond, put it through my bed, to my |
| 0:19.3 | sin to go beyond, heaven be insane. |
| 0:22.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 1231 of Effectively Wildly, baseball podcast and fan graphs and |
| 0:29.0 | from our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lindbergh of the Binger joined by Jeff Sullivan of |
| 0:33.9 | Fan Graphs. |
| 0:34.9 | Hello, Andy Martino caught up with Terry Collins on Thursday. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm just reading from a inquireery.com article here. |
| 0:42.3 | This is from the bottom. |
| 0:43.6 | SNY's Andy Martino caught up with Collins on Thursday and let him know the profanity |
| 0:48.1 | -laced moment had become the latest internet sensation, something that caught the former |
| 0:52.3 | manager completely off guard, quote, oh no, Collins responded. |
| 0:57.8 | That's how the article ends. |
| 1:00.0 | His ass is in the jackpot now. |
| 1:02.8 | So apparently, majorly baseball is trying to scrub this, right at the internet. |
| 1:06.6 | That is a long gone pain. |
| 1:07.6 | If you haven't found it, hurry, because it's disappearing. |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah, according to Rob Manfred, they made a commitment to the umpires that if they would |
| 1:13.1 | wear microphones, certain types of interactions that we all know go on on the field would |
| 1:17.4 | not be aired publicly. |
| 1:18.8 | So right now, baseball is trying to identify the leaker. |
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