Effectively Wild Episode 1254: Revenge of the Super-Nerds
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Jacoby Ellsbury‘s latest injury, Jayson Werth‘s anti-analytics rant, Luke Heimlich, and Shohei Ohtani, then answer listener emails about how defensive positioning is affecting positions themselves, throwing strikes to Jorge Alfaro, bringing “the wall” to baseball, why so many pitchers are throwing 100 mph, how the Orioles fit their new minor leaguers into their farm system, Collin McHugh‘s recent success, Bartolo Colon’s Hall of Fame case, Mike Trout without a sense of the strike zone, and the differences between baseball and soccer when it comes to player fraternization, plus Stat Blasts about the most unlikely five-walk performances, baseball Scorigami, and the days with the most one-run games.
Audio intro: The Aquabats!, "Nerd Alert"
Audio outro: Tacocat, "I Love Seattle"
Link to article about defense and three true outcomes
Link to picture of cricket’s “silly position”
Link to second picture of cricket’s “silly position”
Link to baseball Scorigami diagram
Link to Sam’s Colon article
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| 0:00.0 | Hey one other highlight, you know what happened in Rochester tonight. |
| 0:02.8 | Willins, Austin, EOS successfully pulled off the second hidden ball trick for the Rochester |
| 0:07.9 | Red Wings this year. |
| 0:09.3 | Jermaine Curtis had one earlier this year was playing third. |
| 0:12.9 | They pulled off a hidden ball trick because of course he did because the legend continues |
| 0:17.6 | to be burnished of Willins, Austin, EOS. |
| 0:20.3 | I had some friends in town and I don't know them well. |
| 0:23.9 | No teachers, daughter and her family as cave lashes a ball to center field. |
| 0:28.3 | That guy goes back on and makes a nice one and catch one out. |
| 0:32.0 | And she had two sons, they live on California and they were aged I think 12 and 10 and they |
| 0:36.4 | were in to watch a couple twins games. |
| 0:38.1 | They kind of do it at a ballpark tour and I was like, oh you know who's your favorite player |
| 0:41.2 | and your lords, dozer at the time and they're like, ostody oh man, like we listen to Ben |
| 0:46.6 | Lindbergh's podcast and he doesn't strike out and he doesn't walk and so I told him, |
| 0:51.6 | I said, you know I know Ben Lindbergh. |
| 0:52.9 | No way. |
| 0:54.5 | So I texted Ben Lindbergh, I said they're more impressed than I know youth and I know |
| 0:58.5 | Paul Moliner. |
| 1:00.5 | He is kind of the driver of the Austin EO bandwagon nationally. |
| 1:05.8 | It's a strike called in the count of zone one. |
| 1:23.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 12 and 4 of Effectively Wild, the baseball podcast from |
| 1:40.0 | Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. |
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