Effectively Wild Episode 1299: The Whiff Heard Round the World
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a Willians Astudillo strikeout (and Astudillo vs. other, more highly-touted Twins), the team-switching saga of Oliver Drake, and the singular skill of Nathan Eovaldi, then answer listener emails about changing the game to appeal to non-fans, the value of base-stealing, the odds of seeing gear from every team at one game, Allen Cordoba and the aftermath of the 2017 Padres’ Rule 5 extravaganza, Gareth Morgan and the highest strikeout rates, adjusting stats for the times-through-the-order effect, and modern pitcher usage compared to the gig economy, plus a Stat Blast about Derek Dietrich and the hitters with the highest hit-by-pitch rates.
Audio intro: Neko Case & Her Boyfriends, "Thanks a Lot"
Audio outro: Chris Thile, "Thanks for Listening"
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Link to Ben’s Padres Rule 5 post
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks, thanks son, I got a broken heart, it's all I've got. |
| 0:10.5 | You made me cry, yeah, cry a lot, how long's it going? |
| 0:18.8 | And it's thanks a lot. |
| 0:21.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 1299 of Effective Wildly baseball podcast from FanGrafts presented |
| 0:28.6 | by our patrons. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Rigger and I am joined by Jeff Sullivan of FanGrafts who I believe |
| 0:36.1 | has some sad news to relate. |
| 0:37.9 | I was tipped off by baseball analyst Oscar Prieta Rojas on Tuesday evening that for the |
| 0:44.6 | first time in the Venezuelan Winter League, Williams' Astonio has struck out. |
| 0:49.8 | Oh, mighty Williams. |
| 0:50.8 | He struck out has struck out. |
| 0:52.4 | And as I believe 114th at bat, he's had more play-the-beerances than that because he |
| 0:57.7 | has drawn six walks. |
| 0:59.9 | But Astonio at this point batting, 333, 388, 500, still very good, not quite all 100 they |
| 1:05.6 | aza good, apparently. |
| 1:07.6 | But in any case, the strikeout list streak is over. |
| 1:11.0 | It feels, I don't know, does this feel better or worse than when Stephen Brault struck out? |
| 1:15.7 | I haven't really wrapped my head around it. |
| 1:17.7 | I don't know, I saw in the tweet that you retweeted there was a reply from someone who |
| 1:21.7 | pointed out that Astonio hadn't struck out for quite a while at the end of the last |
| 1:26.2 | Venezuelan Winter League season. |
| 1:27.8 | So if you add that together with this season, then it's something like 190 at bats he went |
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