Effectively Wild Episode 1356: Keep Your Eye on the Bat
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and Meg Rowley banter about Sam’s cabin sojourn, how well Major League has held up, an exciting development in strategic bat tosses, a big day for Willians Astudillo, the difficulty of drawing conclusions about baseball early in the season, the early-season home-run rate, the paradox of sports radio, Sam’s Jose Ramirez hot take, bunting against four-man outfields, service-time manipulation and Kyle Freeland, whether we would notice if MLB stealthily implemented robot umps, and check-swing mistakes, plus Stat Blasts about Luke Voit and perfect starts to the season, the most MLB games ever played in one day, the longest gaps between pairings of the same pitcher and catcher, and Yu Darvish and the most pitches thrown in a game before the first ball in play.
Audio intro: Disclosure, "Together"
Audio outro: Frank Sinatra, "We’ll Be Together Again"
Link to Sam on strategic bat tosses
Link to Swanson bat toss
Link to research on hitters being ahead of pitchers
Link to Martin pitching appearance stats
Link to article about position players pitching with leads
Link to day with the most games played
Link to longest gaps in pitcher-catcher pairings
Link to list of games with most pitches before first BIP
Link to box score for Darvish start
Link to box score for Martinez start
Link to article about MLBPA grievance
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Together and so are the line |
| 0:04.6 | Together |
| 0:07.6 | Together |
| 0:11.2 | It is our pie |
| 0:15.6 | Together |
| 0:18.6 | Together |
| 0:21.4 | Together |
| 0:24.2 | Together |
| 0:26.8 | Together |
| 0:28.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 1356 of effectively wild a baseball podcast from |
| 0:34.3 | Bengrass presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.9 | I am the member of the ringer and I am joined by both of my co-hosts today |
| 0:42.0 | Meg Rally is back again from Bengrass to the big hello and |
| 0:45.8 | Samehler of the S.P.N. is returned from his cabin weekend. Hello Sam. Hello Ben. How are you? |
| 0:52.1 | I got to ask about the cabin weekend. How did it go? |
| 0:55.0 | Well to be honest it was a lot of pressure. I felt a lot of pressure |
| 1:00.4 | Once I got there I had your voice in the back of my head |
| 1:04.3 | And I felt like I should be |
| 1:06.7 | I don't know getting more out of it. Yeah, sorry. I ruined it |
| 1:10.8 | It really is a lot of there really are a lot of things happening at at one time and I |
| 1:15.8 | Started to feel guilt that I would flip from one game to the other |
| 1:18.8 | But then if I'd stayed on one game, I would have felt guilt for not flipping over to the other |
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