Effectively Wild Episode 1287: Contact High
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a home-run robbery by 40-year-old Endy Chavez and some managerial news, then discuss the first two games of the World Series, focusing on the Red Sox strikeout narrative, the disappointment of Clayton Kershaw vs. Chris Sale and Sale’s playoff vulnerability, David Price‘s second consecutive strong postseason start, a Fenway Park attendance mystery, mid-inning commercials on the Fox broadcast, Nathan Eovaldi‘s free agency, Cody Bellinger’s deceptive fly balls, the decisions of Dave Roberts (including Pedro Baez vs. Alex Wood and not starting Max Muncy), and more.
Audio intro: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, "Talking Straight"
Audio outro: Oasis, "Hung in a Bad Place"
Link to Endy play
Link to Ben’s research on the contact advantage
Link to Jeff’s research on the contact advantage
Link to Jeff’s Bellinger post
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Lead your face, hope, listen, no embrace |
| 0:05.0 | I wanna know, I wanna know where the silence comes from |
| 0:10.0 | Where space originates, back to seeking |
| 0:14.0 | You're not talking straight, I'm right, this is it |
| 0:20.0 | You're not talking straight, come around, be given |
| 0:25.0 | You're not talking straight, let it go |
| 0:29.0 | Back to seeking, you're not talking straight |
| 0:34.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1287 |
| 0:37.0 | I'll be effectively wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:40.0 | Ben Graff's presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:43.0 | I'm your friend Lenberg of the ringer |
| 0:45.0 | joined by Jeff Sullivan of Ben Graff's solo |
| 0:47.0 | Williams Estadillo is not playing in the World Series this year |
| 0:51.0 | because Nuretsaks and the Dodgers are |
| 0:53.0 | But for any of you who are playing a |
| 0:55.0 | Williams Estadillo drinking game, by technicality |
| 0:58.0 | I must take a shot now because the podcast opened with Williams Estadillo |
| 1:02.0 | I don't know, you wanna let's start? |
| 1:04.0 | You picked me out, there's been two games |
| 1:06.0 | I have actually relevant news about the Venezuelan winter leagues |
| 1:10.0 | that do not involve Williams Estadillo this time |
| 1:14.0 | Did you see the highlight? If not, I will link to you and to everyone else |
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