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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1273: Baseball, But Louder

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the response to their previous episode, whether improvements in catching or improvements in umpiring have done more to reduce the variation in framing performance among teams, a Mike Trout snub, Breyvic Valera‘s contact rate, and the latest revelations about Addison Russell’s alleged domestic abuse, then answer listener emails […]

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0:00.0

No one jealove, where are they now?

0:07.0

No one jealove, where are they now?

0:15.0

And I'm hoping that I'll still hear them loud.

0:19.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1273 of Effectively Wild,

0:24.0

a baseball podcast from Fangrafts presented by our Patreon supporters.

0:28.0

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrafts.

0:32.0

Hello.

0:33.0

Hi Ben.

0:34.0

So we got a lot of response to our episode from yesterday.

0:37.0

I would say there was a lot of listener discussion in the Facebook group.

0:40.0

I think most people seem to enjoy hearing what Michael Schumer had to say about big league advance,

0:47.0

even though they, like us, weren't entirely sure what to make of much of it.

0:52.0

But I can tell you that based on what I heard and probably what you heard,

0:57.0

there are a lot of people in baseball who are not big fans of big league advance

1:03.0

and are skeptical to say the least about the claims,

1:07.0

which is part of the reason that we wanted to have him on to discuss those claims himself.

1:13.0

And you can decide what you think of him and some people decided that they think it's a great business model

1:19.0

and other people decided they think it's all snake oil.

1:22.0

So I guess we'll see one day.

1:24.0

I mean, I guess what we don't, we are not in a position to have that much specific information.

1:30.0

We can't speak to the models to project my league careers

1:33.0

and we can't speak to the models to project injury risk

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