Effectively Wild Episode 1366: The Cooperstown Crossover
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the numbers behind the Yankees’ historic injury stack, an inspired piece of pitch-framing by Francisco Cervelli, Ramon Laureano as a human highlight machine, how often hitters would (and should) swing if they knew every pitch would be in the strike zone but still be called a ball, and the hitters they’re paying particular attention to, then discuss how Christian Yelich elevated himself onto a Hall of Fame trajectory, how the Marlins’ latest round of trades looks in retrospect, the Brewers’ WAR without Yelich, how every new breakout burnishes the greatness of Mike Trout, and the fastest and slowest runners of the season so far (plus an update on the Royals’ base-stealing).
Audio intro: Ben Folds Five, "Missing the War"
Audio outro: MGMT, "Someone’s Missing"
Link to list of most players on the IL
Link to list of most WAR on the IL
Link to Yankees injury timetables
Link to video of Cervelli frame
Link to Jeff on Molina frames
Link to video of Laureano play
Link to FanGraphs Guts! page
Link to MLB.tv GameChanger
Link to Ben on GameChanger
Link to Ben on Harper’s hot streak
Link to Sam on Hall of Fame probabilities
Link to Sam on Yelich
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:25.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1366 of Effectively Wild. |
| 0:29.0 | David podcast bandwraps.com brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Sam Miller at ESPN. I'm Ben Lemberg with the ringer. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi. I'm trying to decide whether I should comment on the back of the eye. |
| 0:43.0 | I accidentally said daily. All right. How's it going? Do you have any banter? |
| 0:48.0 | I do have some banter. It is going okay. It is going better for me than it is going for the New York can't keep line up right now. |
| 0:54.0 | And that is my first bit of banter here. So as we speak, we are recording late on Monday and the Yankees are playing the angels right now. |
| 1:02.0 | The Yankees lineup includes Clint Frazier, batting cleanup, Takman. |
| 1:07.0 | I have to remind myself the first names of the Yankees in the language. |
| 1:12.0 | I was going to say it's very suspicious that you suddenly switched format from full name to last name only. |
| 1:18.0 | I know. I actually had to look up multiple pronunciations. |
| 1:24.0 | And so Mike Takman is batting fifth right now. And then Mike Ford is batting sixth. |
| 1:31.0 | Geo Urshella is batting seventh. Kyle Higashiyoka is batting eighth. |
| 1:37.0 | And then Tyler Wade is batting ninth. So this is not very recognizable as the Yankees lineup that started the season. |
| 1:44.0 | And we got a question from a listener Jeremy T who prompted by the Yankees rash of injuries asked what is the most wins of a replacement based on the previous season's numbers that a team has had on the disabled list or entered list at one time. |
| 2:00.0 | I have no idea how to calculate this, but I can't imagine it goes much higher than the Yankees are at right now. |
| 2:06.0 | So I wanted to look into this because of course they lost Aaron Judge to an oblique injury. |
| 2:11.0 | That was the latest and one of the most serious injuries that was this past weekend. |
| 2:15.0 | So I have determined an answer here. I got a bunch of injury data from Corey Dawkins, formerly of baseball perspectives and now of baseball injury consultants. |
| 2:26.0 | And he sent me a list of every injured list stint going back to 2002. |
| 2:32.0 | So that is as far back as he has comprehensive injury records. |
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