Effectively Wild Episode 1363: The Return of Real or Not Real
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about baseball equivalents of Tiger Woods winning the Masters, follow up on two topics from the previous week (Willians Astudillo’s disputed whiff and Don Zimmer’s bases-loaded suicide hit and run) and, in a time-honored tradition, discuss whether selected league-wide stats from the first few weeks of the season are reflective of real trends.
Audio intro: The Milk Carton Kids, "Nothing is Real"
Audio outro: The Zombies, "Play it for Real"
Link to Rob on stopping at second
Link to Ben on avoiding the strike zone
Link to changes to curtail sign-stealing
Link to FanGraphs post on 2019 pitch selection
Link to Sam on pitchouts
Link to Ben on pitchouts
Link to Jeff on first-pitch swings
Link to Sam on young players’ production
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Nothing is real, open your heart |
| 0:06.0 | All that you feel is coded in prison |
| 0:12.0 | In pixels and algorithms |
| 0:18.0 | Nothing is real, though it isn't blowing |
| 0:24.0 | The sun doesn't shine |
| 0:28.0 | The sun is shining |
| 0:32.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1363 |
| 0:36.0 | of Effectively Wild a baseball |
| 0:38.0 | podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:42.0 | I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by a similar of ESPN |
| 0:46.0 | Hey Ben, don't know if you watched Tiger this weekend |
| 0:50.0 | I did watch Tiger and as I did I was thinking about |
| 0:54.0 | baseball equivalents or what a baseball equivalent would be |
| 0:56.0 | We got a question to that effect from listener Scott |
| 1:00.0 | who also asked us what the MLP equivalent would be |
| 1:02.0 | I don't know whether he means in the past |
| 1:04.0 | or in the present or the future |
| 1:06.0 | But I was trying to come up with some scenario with a player |
| 1:10.0 | now that would mirror what Tiger accomplished |
| 1:14.0 | and couldn't really come up with a perfect analog |
| 1:16.0 | I don't know if anything occurs to you |
| 1:18.0 | but seemed to me like it might have to involve Albert Poohol |
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