Effectively Wild Episode 1305: Corbin McCarthy
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Willians Astudillo’s Venezuelan Winter League MVP chances, the latest scuttlebutt about banning the shift (and why it reflects the right impulse but the wrong solution), and the Nationals’ Patrick Corbin signing, the suddenly scary NL East, and the offseason market so far. Then (25:44) they bring on just-retired, 13-year major-league pitcher Brandon McCarthy to talk about his transition to civilian life, a hug from Frank Thomas, the pace of play, his (and players’) opinions on the shift, stats, technology, and player reinventions, his interest in broadcasting and thoughts on tweeting, watching his former team in the World Series, the players’ economic predicament, baseball’s youth movement, why fastballs are faster, the demise of the starter, clubhouse leadership, the up-and-coming Braves, framing and Tyler Flowers, dealing with politics and bad behavior in baseball, preventing pitchers from getting hit in the head, and more.
Audio intro: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, "Banned (By the Man)"
Audio interstitial: Trans-Siberian Orchestra, "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24"
Audio outro: R.E.M., "Exhuming McCarthy"
Link to Jayson Stark on the shift
Link to Jeff on the shift
Link to Ben on the shift in 2015
Link to Ben on moving the mound back
Link to Ben on Flowers
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| 0:00.0 | How many days will it take till you know the plan? |
| 0:06.0 | And how many sons will pass before you understand? |
| 0:12.0 | You'll bend, bend, by the man |
| 0:21.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1,305 of Actually Wild, a baseball podcast brought to you by |
| 0:29.0 | Fangrafts and their Patreon supporters. I am Jeff Sullivan. |
| 0:32.0 | Fangrafts' pride remember how this intro goes. |
| 0:34.0 | Joey is always by pen and the number of the ringer. I think I mostly got it. |
| 0:37.0 | I got Fangrafts and Patreon backwards. But anyways, how are you? |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, good. That was pretty good. |
| 0:42.0 | First time in a couple months and people don't even recognize this intro to the podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | But they'll recognize this part. Williams Estadio is up to 160 at bats with the |
| 0:51.0 | Curry based day a longer word in the Avengers, Wail and Winter League. |
| 0:55.0 | He is leading his team now in batting average at 356. He's got a 910 OPS. |
| 0:59.0 | He's up to five home runs. Seven walks still. Just the one strike out. |
| 1:03.0 | Williams Estadio has three times as many stolen bases in Winterball as he has strikeouts. |
| 1:09.0 | It's going pretty well. I think all things considered for Williams. |
| 1:13.0 | I can't believe we had a Minnesota twin for much of the season on the podcast yesterday. |
| 1:18.0 | Neither of us thought to ask the obvious, just the obligatory Williams Estadio question. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm embarrassed. I'm also embarrassed. In fact, I think you still have all of the redrakes phone number. |
| 1:27.0 | I might just have to call and be like, hey, hey, wait. |
| 1:30.0 | How much overlap, he finished the season with the twins, right? |
| 1:34.0 | He was there for a decent amount of time. He was there for the Estadio sensation. |
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