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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1269: Best in the Business

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the unlikely championship season of the Northwest League’s Eugene Emeralds, Jacob deGrom‘s latest hard-luck loss, and maintaining perspective about the Phillies’ late-season swoon, then answer listener emails about an MLB ballpark sleepover, whether making ballparks bigger would counter the three true outcomes, Chris Davis’s strikeouts vs. batting average […]

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0:00.0

Pitches high heirs are rookie we've never seen his name is Williams not not William with an M Williams

0:08.3

plural with an N his last name is Astu Dio

0:12.1

He is a catcher a chunky right hand hitter pitch is high

0:17.1

And the count to an O when you look at him you know he can hit for power. I'm in ease

0:22.0

He looks like an offensive guard

0:25.0

Not a stall, but that kind of bill

0:27.9

He is a

0:29.9

Seen how big he is five wow he looks at to five nine which means he's five seven and weighs

0:36.8

225 and he's a husky sort. He's a chunky young

0:57.9

You

1:06.2

1269 of effectively wild a baseball podcast from Ben grass presented by our patreon supporters

1:12.5

I am the member of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of fan graphs. Hello. Let's talk about the Northwest League

1:19.7

Championship

1:20.7

Well, we are on the same wavelength we I was just gonna start exactly that way

1:25.5

Why would we start with the Northwest League championship because this is effectively wild and what else would we start with not

1:32.7

Actually, a big baseball story the Eugene emeralds are an affiliate of the Cubs the Spokane Indians are an affiliate of I don't know

1:40.6

Somebody else and they were playing in the championship

1:43.5

It's already weird that this the Eugene advanced the championship because let me tell you something about the Northwest League

1:49.5

The Eugene emeralds finished with a record of 31 and 45 which was the worst it was the worst record of the 18

1:54.8

worst record in the league

1:56.8

We're the best record belonging to Portland area zone Hillsborough hops the Salem, Kajama, Kano's who hosted us for the clips event last year

2:04.5

they finished a

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