Effectively Wild Episode 1283: Hey, Look, a Playoff Episode
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the lack of non-playoff banter and discuss the first two games of each championship series, touching on Clayton Kershaw bias, Matt Barnes curveballs, the finer points of pitcher-batter matchup stats, Josh Hader as a starter vs. as a reliever, the upcoming games, and much more (including a Brandon Woodruff-filled snippet of last week’s Patreon-only broadcast).
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah |
| 0:02.0 | Yo |
| 0:03.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 12-83 of Effective New Wild, a baseball podcast from Ben Gottz presented by |
| 0:33.3 | our future supporters. |
| 0:34.3 | I am Ben Gottz. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm the very good speaker. |
| 0:36.3 | Join my Jeff Sullivan. |
| 0:37.3 | Have a big round of applause. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello. |
| 0:39.3 | So the problem with the playoffs is that there isn't really anything to talk about |
| 0:43.7 | other than the playoffs because news is pretty slow other than the blockbuster Kyle |
| 0:50.0 | Bearclaw trade. |
| 0:51.5 | Just not a lot of transactions and announcements coming out at this point in the season. |
| 0:56.3 | So really we only have limited texts to work with. |
| 1:00.5 | We have four championship series games but fortunately they've been pretty good games |
| 1:05.4 | and pretty good series so far. |
| 1:06.9 | Have they? |
| 1:07.9 | I guess they have. |
| 1:08.9 | I've kind of... |
| 1:09.9 | I've been watching the Red Sox have played the last two... |
| 1:12.9 | The Red Sox and Astros played the last two games. |
| 1:15.1 | So for me it's been a while since I watched the Dodgers and Brewers and I've therefore |
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