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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1248: Hustle and Slow

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the Zach Britton and Nathan Eovaldi trades, the Yankees’ unbelievable bullpen, the Rays’ most recent Sergio Romo experiment, and the Gary Sanchez hustle/groin-strain saga, follow up on athletes dominating lesser competition and Noah Syndergaard’s latest affliction, then answer emails about Odubel Herrera, Rhys Hoskins, how a bad fielder affects a better fielder’s positioning, and the future of specialty coaches. Lastly, they bring on comedian Jim Jefferies (57:06) to discuss the down-and-up Dodgers, being a celebrity fan, the sport’s pace of play, how he learned to love baseball after moving to the U.S., baseball vs. cricket, the use of stats in baseball and cricket, steroids, Mike Trout vs. Bryce Harper, and more.

Audio intro: Gord Downie, "The East Wind"
Audio interstitial: The White Stripes, "Jimmy the Exploder"
Audio outro: Lou Reed, "Oh, Jim"

Link to Ben’s article about Cano’s hustle
Link to community manager ratings

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0:00.0

Hello again my friends

0:05.0

I come to see you again

0:10.0

I'm East West

0:17.0

Malaysia Skirm

0:23.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1248

0:29.0

of Effectively Wild and a Baseball Podcast for the Span Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters

0:35.0

I am Van Linger of Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Van Graphs

0:39.0

Hello, I'm Van. I'm gonna do a little bit of everything today's inventor, maybe a few emails

0:44.0

and then I guess not our typical guest

0:46.0

We're gonna be talking later in this episode to Jim Jeffries, the comedian and Dodgers fan

0:52.0

We're gonna talk to him about learning how to like baseball, comparisons to other sports

0:57.0

The Dodgers season and whether Mike Trout is good, Jeffries has some opinions on that matter

1:03.0

Not typically expressed on this podcast, but I don't know, maybe we changed his mind

1:07.0

We'll see

1:08.0

So, a few things that we want to get to before that other stuff

1:12.0

I guess we should start with the trades, right? We've got a couple trades and they're both involving ALE's teams

1:18.0

So, there we go, going for the traffic, Yankees Red Sox

1:21.0

We've got trades, we've got Zach Britain going to the Yankees, we've got Nathan Yvaldi going to the Red Sox

1:27.0

And you've just been writing about Yvaldi, I don't know whether you have written about Britain

1:31.0

But the Yankees bullpen is kind of amazing and was kind of amazing before this trade and is now even more amazing

1:38.0

Written about, written is a fun thing to say, separately just going back to the intro real quick

1:42.0

We were saying just the other podcast that we don't really need to one of us ends up in situations where we have to like

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