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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1313: What We Missed in 2018 (AL Edition)

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

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In the first of two themed episodes, Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan review one aspect of each American League team’s year that they overlooked on earlier episodes, touching on stories involving Mike Scioscia, Myles Straw, Stephen Piscotty, Rowdy Tellez, Jose Ramirez, Mike Marjama, Richard Bleier, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, a stathead in uniform, Tony Renda, Brad Keller, a fight between broadcasters, Byron Buxton, Yolmer Sanchez, Gary Sanchez, and more.

Audio intro: John Cale, "You Know More Than I Know"
Audio outro: Neko Case, "I Missed the Point"

Link to Straw article
Link to Straw spray chart
Link to Piscotty post
Link to Ramirez Mario Kart article
Link to Bleier post
Link to Erlichman article
Link to innovative walkoffs
Link to wild pitch caught stealing

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0:00.0

In this dead I read the morning view It bad

0:10.0

What endlessness I had And no more to be said

0:20.0

In no more than I know

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1313 of Effectively Wild

0:36.0

a baseball podcast from Vangrass presented by our 8 transporters

0:40.0

I am Ben the verge of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vangrass

0:44.0

Hello, so we have sort of a theme week here or at least a theme 2 out of 3

0:49.0

episodes this week at some point on an episode I don't know a couple of months ago

0:53.0

I mentioned that it might be a good year end idea to circle back and take a look at some of the stories that we missed from the season

1:01.0

and just come up with something some player or fun fact or game some storyline that we overlooked that maybe everyone overlooked the season

1:12.0

which is not easy to do because we have done a lot of episodes and a lot of podcasting this year

1:19.0

so it's tough to find things that we never touched on because we are desperate sometimes we'll talk about anything

1:25.0

so we're going to try to attempt to do that today and also on our next episode

1:31.0

and I've gone to the Facebook group and crowdsourced some stories from people that we never talked about this year

1:38.0

and I've got at least one for each team so that's what we're going to do

1:43.0

never tried this before but we'll see how it goes

1:45.0

You know what you could have done if you weren't stupid was you could have turned this into 30 episodes

1:49.0

I thought you were going to say take the week off because

1:53.0

Can I take my back and do it again? Take the week off

1:58.0

Freaking up does just old archive the episodes I think that's what a lot of podcasts do

2:03.0

Why are we doing this? A lot of baseball podcasts take the entire off season off

2:08.0

Here we are the week of Christmas do what are usual episodes

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