Effectively Wild Episode 1260: Waiver? I Hardly Know Her!
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a listener-created tool to determine the first big leaguer to be born after and the last big leaguer to be born before any given date, the waiver-claim process, the Nationals’ trades, disastrous season, and hazy outlook, the Cubs acquiring Daniel Murphy and the Rockies opting not to, the Mariners’ second annual Women in Baseball Night, and Michael Kopech‘s turnaround, plus listener emails about Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s talent and future, adjusting stats for position players pitching, the disadvantage of hitting at altitude, Chris Davis with fewer fielders, and the cost to a team of an NL manager managing like an AL manager, plus Stat Blasts about the adjustments Mike Fiers has made in Oakland and the Cubs’ historic solo-homer streak.
Audio intro: Koufax, "Younger Body"
Audio outro: Poco, "Flyin’ Solo"
Link to MLB Endcaps calculator
Link to Jeff’s Murphy/Rockies post
Link to Craig’s post about Vlad Jr. batting .400
Link to Jeff’s post about position players pitching
Link to Sam’s post about position players pitching
Link to Purple Row post about the Rockies’ home/road splits
Link to Jeff’s post about the Coors Field hangover
Link to Rob’s article about solo homers
Link to Sheryl’s post about Davis vs. Palmeiro
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're nobody with an older soul |
| 0:05.2 | You're nobody with an older soul |
| 0:10.3 | And what you ask for is unknown |
| 0:15.7 | If forever |
| 0:20.4 | On your start thinking so |
| 0:26.2 | You're silent |
| 0:30.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1260 of Effective Wild |
| 0:34.3 | A baseball podcast from Fanggraphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:38.5 | I am Ben Nmberg of the Ringer |
| 0:40.2 | joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fanggraphs |
| 0:42.2 | Hello, hi, are you doing well? |
| 0:44.5 | So you just took a little trip which we will talk about in a moment |
| 0:48.0 | And we'll get to some headlines and then we will get to some emails |
| 0:51.6 | But I wanted to start with a cool thing that a listener created |
| 0:55.5 | Which it's always nice when we talk about something |
| 0:57.9 | We just I'd like to bring it up on the show |
| 0:59.8 | And then suddenly a listener brings it to life in some ways |
| 1:03.2 | So last week when we were talking to Rachel McDaniel |
| 1:06.7 | And we were discussing the idea of the first player to make the majors |
| 1:11.4 | Who is younger than you |
| 1:13.1 | And how that can be kind of a jarring moment |
| 1:15.8 | When you realize that someone younger than you |
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