Effectively Wild Episode 1262: Conquering Coors, with Kyle Freeland
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the surprising home run streak of Kendrys Morales, Lucas Giolito, Michael Kopech, and the fluctuating state of the White Sox rebuild, an unusual Yankees save streak and the changing distribution of saves across the majors, and the Rays-Pirates Chris Archer trade in retrospect. Then (25:41) they bring on Rockies starter Kyle Freeland to discuss growing up rooting for the Rockies, the perils of pitching development and recovery at altitude, how he’s conquered Coors Field and put together one of the strongest seasons in franchise history, the adjustments he’s made this season, the secret to inducing weak contact, pitching in pennant races from the beginning of his career, whether Rockies pitchers are perceived unfairly, the benefits of being managed by former pitcher (and pitching coach) Bud Black, and more. Finally, Ben and Jeff review the interview, weigh the merits of strikeout guys vs. groundball guys, and forecast Freeland’s career, and Ben provides some updates and weighs in on the latest debate about Daniel Murphy’s homophobic comments from 2015.
Audio intro: Bob Dylan, "Seven Days"
Audio interstitial 1: Spooky Tooth, "Kyle"
Audio interstitial 2: The Alan Parsons Project, "Standing on Higher Ground"
Audio outro: The Smiths, "Accept Yourself"
Link to Jay Jaffe’s post about Morales
Link to list of pitchers who’ve induced the weakest contact
Link to Freeland’s pitch selection by season
Link to Whitney McIntosh article about Murphy’s comments
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 7 days |
| 0:05.3 | 7 days, 7 of blowing |
| 0:10.0 | 1 and I was a little really blowing |
| 0:12.5 | This should be coming for |
| 0:15.1 | My beautiful comrades up with Lord |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1262 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:24.0 | The baseball podcast from Fangrafts |
| 0:26.1 | presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:28.3 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer |
| 0:30.0 | Join by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrafts |
| 0:32.0 | Hello, hello, we've got a guest a little later in the show |
| 0:35.0 | and it's a good one. Kyle Freeland, Rocky's starting pitcher |
| 0:38.0 | 25-year-old lefty, he will be joining us |
| 0:40.9 | and dissecting his success this season |
| 0:43.6 | and really since he came up last year |
| 0:46.0 | and Kyle Freeland if you haven't gone and looked at his numbers |
| 0:49.0 | we will get into them with him and with ourselves |
| 0:51.7 | after we talk to him but he's having an extremely impressive season |
| 0:56.0 | maybe the best season ever by a Rocky's pitcher by the time it's all said and done |
| 1:00.4 | it's really just him and Ubaldo in 2010 |
| 1:03.7 | depending on how things shake out over the following month |
| 1:06.6 | but according to baseball reference war he is up to 6.3 |
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