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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1268: Replay, Reviewed

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Willians Astudillo, Jeff’s ideal afterlife, Mike Trout‘s future and what an extension for Trout might look like, the Tyler Flowers extension, Michael Kopech‘s impending Tommy John surgery and the UCL scourge, how being Tampa Bay’s “bulk guy” is affecting Ryan Yarbrough‘s WAR, Mallex Smith vs. Giancarlo Stanton, a […]

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0:00.0

The heart is starting Monday

0:04.0

To the jessless

0:08.0

Winds is worse

0:16.0

There's this also sad

0:24.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1268 of Effectively Wild to the Abyssal podcast from Bandgraphs

0:29.5

presented by our patreon supporters

0:31.5

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by chef Sullivan of Bandgraphs. Hello

0:35.5

Hi Ben, we're gonna do a bit of an all banter episode

0:38.7

I think we have a bunch of topics we want to get to

0:41.2

It's hard at this time of year to come up with non-guest topics that can take up an entire episode

0:47.5

It just kind of feels like we've discussed all of the season's storylines like several times

0:52.8

And now we just kind of have to fast forward to the end of the season

0:57.1

And then we can talk about the playoffs which is fun

0:59.5

But right now we're kind of in no-man's

1:01.5

Yeah, yeah, no that's pretty much so why do we why do we start things off?

1:05.1

I'll just let's start with a fan favorite and a personal favorite

1:09.1

Your favorite let's set an embarrassingly low minimum of 30 played appearances

1:13.9

It's 30 played a pretty good one

1:15.9

I know where this is going

1:17.1

So we've got 593 players this year who have batted at least 30 times

1:21.1

Now the player in question is better 38 times

1:24.1

So we're sitting lower minimum even for him but Williams asked to do

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