Effectively Wild Episode 1346: Baseball and Eight American Pies
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the fallout from Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s oblique injury and the signings of Adam Jones and Martin Maldonado as referenda on free agency, then answer listener emails about whether the Indians and Astros could have significantly upped their playoff odds by making more moves (and fan bases that should be aggrieved about their teams’ winter inactivity), Craig Kimbrel’s in-season negotiating leverage, whether wearing or not wearing a uniform number is a more fitting tribute, the value of scouting strengths versus scouting weaknesses, and the effects of robo umps on offense, entertainment value, and chasing pitches outside the strike zone, plus a Stat Blast about manager height.
Audio intro: The Glands, "Pie"
Audio outro: Neuseiland, "Robots of Me"
Link to Dan Szymborski on Jones and Maldonado
Link to Sam on players seeking contracts
Link to BP playoff odds
Link to Sam’s article on manager height
Link to article on the compassionate umpire
Link to article on the Bayesian umpire
Link to Baltimore/DC-area EW meetup
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Been adopted a car in the yard, since a piece and a mallet and chisel |
| 0:07.0 | That's what I care for doing the right thing, some mothers say |
| 0:12.0 | When you pay them like a friend, hey, me |
| 0:18.0 | I went to get mine |
| 0:24.0 | I went to get mine, you to the fly |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1346 |
| 0:33.0 | Effectively wild a baseball podcast from FanCrafts presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by a similar of ESPN |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, I'm Ben |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, Meg Rally is in Arizona very busy with FanCrafts things |
| 0:46.0 | She'll be back on the show later this week |
| 0:49.0 | Today we're going to do a bit of banter and then also some emails |
| 0:53.0 | I guess we should talk about something we were talking about last week |
| 0:57.0 | which is Vladimir Graro Jr. and the fact that we now have a sort of resolution |
| 1:02.0 | to his spring story, not exactly what we all expected it to be |
| 1:06.0 | but he is now out for the next three weeks or so with a low-grade oblique strain |
| 1:12.0 | which is a convenient in a sense I guess for the Blue Jays |
| 1:16.0 | and that he can just sit and they don't have to answer difficult questions about why he's not actually in the majors on opening day |
| 1:23.0 | What do you think the mood would have been in the Blue Jays front office when Vladimir Graro suffered this oblique strain |
| 1:30.0 | which is never something you want a player to suffer because sometimes those things can linger and they can be pesky |
| 1:35.0 | On the other hand, this is a good excuse for them to throw out there |
| 1:40.0 | so they don't have to talk about how his defense is bad |
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