Effectively Wild Episode 1295: The 120-Percent Podcast
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Jose Altuve and other players claiming to give (much) more than 100 percent and Joe Mauer‘s retirement and Hall of Fame case, then answer listener emails about Shohei Ohtani’s future role, whether Mike Trout could go contact-for-contact with Willians Astudillo, a baseball romance novel, winning a World Series MVP award without hitting, whether improved pitcher hitting could correct the so-called strikeout scourge, a 60-WAR season vs. 60 one-WAR seasons (and the theoretical single-season WAR maximum), the effects of bigger bases, and teams with no “qualifying” pitchers, plus a Stat Blast about Mallex Smith and the hitters who’ve sprinted their way to extra offensive value.
Audio intro: Ken Ashcorp, "20 Percent Cooler"
Audio outro: Manny, "210 Percent"
Link to Jay’s Mauer post
Link to story on the 1957 A’s
Link to Sam on the ERA title innings minimum
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, on this beat, even for me to kick my own roll up |
| 0:04.1 | Filling up this game, what's the night? |
| 0:06.2 | We're getting 20% cooler up |
| 0:08.2 | We're in a great day, how? |
| 0:09.9 | Caught in my name like Ferris Bueller |
| 0:12.1 | It's gonna wrap this up |
| 0:13.8 | We're getting 20% cooler up |
| 0:17.8 | We're getting 20% cooler up |
| 0:21.6 | We're getting 20% cooler up |
| 0:25.5 | We're getting 20% cooler up |
| 0:27.4 | We're getting 20% cooler up |
| 0:29.4 | We're getting 20% cooler up |
| 0:31.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 1295 |
| 0:34.4 | with effectively wild baseball podcasts |
| 0:36.4 | from Vangrath's presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:39.4 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer |
| 0:41.4 | joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vangrath's |
| 0:43.4 | Hello, hello, Jose Althurve |
| 0:45.4 | had surgery and so you are familiar with |
| 0:48.4 | athletes saying I'm gonna give 105%, |
| 0:50.4 | I'm gonna give 110%, quote from Jose Althurve |
| 0:53.4 | is that right now he's quote not doing a lot |
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