Effectively Wild Episode 1354: Cabin Ball
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Sam’s unusual plan to immerse himself in the beginning of the baseball season, watching games as a writer vs. watching games as a fan, two responses to previous listener-email answers, whether “ball” is synonymous with baseball, why baseball has hit a dry spell for single-season record chases, the most breakable unbreakable records, Ichiro Suzuki as an almost-record-setting pinch hitter, why no one has hit .400 for so long, why doubles are the most immutable hit type, the Royals’ strange spring training, string training effort level, Orlando Cabrera’s wildly improbable on-base streak, and more, then answer listener emails about whether analytics have been a net positive for players and the best stat to represent a player’s power output, plus a Stat Blast about the longest streaks of years in which one team topped a league or division rival.
Audio intro: Lily & Madeleine, "Cabin Fever"
Audio outro: The Hives, "Here We Go Again"
Link to Dario’s YouTube broadcast
Link to Sam on seeing something new in games
Link to Hang Up and Listen on “ball coach”
Link to Sam on the most breakable unbreakable records
Link to article on the increasing homogeneity of ballparks
Link to Ben on the changing distribution of saves
Link to Ben on spring training stats
Link to Sam on the 21-strikeout game
Link to Ben on Ichiro as a pinch hitter
Link to Sam on .400 hitters
Link to division-rival data
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the fingers and numb my eyes, I'm switching |
| 0:04.3 | He's whistling the end in the kitchen |
| 0:07.8 | As a telephone jingles and a snow turns to trickle me |
| 0:11.8 | Right in here where everything gets stuck |
| 0:15.5 | Oh, cabin fever, oh, cabin fever |
| 0:23.0 | Oh, cabin fever, I'm gonna run for it |
| 0:29.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 1354 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:38.5 | Fangrafts presented by our Patreons, orders and I am the member of the ringer, joined by Sam Miller of Sam Millen |
| 0:45.5 | Yes, hello, how are you? |
| 0:47.0 | I'm doing okay, it's opening day, happy opening day to you and everyone listening |
| 0:51.8 | You want me to fake the excitement? It's the day before for me and I can pretend |
| 0:56.8 | I can say, oh yeah, how about that Scherzer de Grom duel? |
| 1:01.8 | Things are off on the right foot |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah, you don't have to fake real-time excitement |
| 1:07.6 | I am excited |
| 1:08.6 | We're a few hours away so you should have to fake too much excitement |
| 1:11.8 | I'm really excited, I'm going all in on baseball this year |
| 1:15.1 | Oh yeah? You can watch, you think you're gonna follow it pretty closely? |
| 1:18.2 | I do, I'm actually going to a cabin to watch baseball for the next four days |
| 1:25.0 | Oh wow, in a cabin, just complete immersion, cabin baseball |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah, it's basically the shining of baseball |
| 1:31.5 | That's what I'm going for |
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