Effectively Wild Episode 1371: What is Sabermetrics?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Noah Syndergaard‘s True Win, an 81-pitch complete game for Kyle Hendricks, the AL Central after Corey Kluber‘s injury and the Twins’ hot start to the season, Tyler Glasnow’s breakout, the Chris Archer trade in review, the impermanence of coaching success, and the latest comments about the baseball by David Price and Rob Manfred, then (28:43) talk to Jeopardy! phenom James Holzhauer about how sabermetrics influenced his future career, his history of betting on baseball, his former (and future?) aspirations of working for an MLB team, how his Jeopardy! strategy (and the backlash to his success) is analogous to baseball, the future of gambling on baseball, how other contestants treat him, how he studies baseball and follows baseball, what other game shows he’d excel at, how Jeopardy! could stop contestants like him, and more.
Audio intro: Yo La Tengo, "If it’s True"
Audio interstitial: Dan Mangan, "Jeopardy"
Audio outro: Shout Out Louds, "Too Late Too Slow"
Link to Sam on Syndergaard
Link to Ben Clemens on Glasnow
Link to Baumann on Glasnow
Link to Laurila on Glasnow
Link to article about the baseball
Link to 2015 Jeopardy! video
Link to MGL interview about betting on baseball
Link to Marc on Holzhauer
Link to cranky column about Holzhauer
Link to FiveThirtyEight on Holzhauer’s strategy
Link to FiveThirtyEight on Holzhauer vs. Jennings
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | The coast is never clear |
| 0:04.2 | Handsome always beyond all |
| 0:06.6 | And though it's not my way in want |
| 0:08.8 | Can help me truck |
| 0:10.2 | Let's hang jam on that |
| 0:12.6 | Gives us a pitch |
| 0:14.1 | If it's true |
| 0:15.1 | I don't mind |
| 0:17.6 | There's a million other things that keep me up at night |
| 0:22.1 | Maybe it's not my breath |
| 0:24.6 | But we find out |
| 0:26.6 | If it's true |
| 0:29.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 1371 of Effectively Wild at baseball |
| 0:33.6 | Podcast brought to you by fan graphs and our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Meg Rowley of fan graphs and I'm joined by Ben Limberg of the ringer. Hello Ben. Hello. How are you? |
| 0:43.1 | Doing well. I just got a tweet from my publisher who sent a picture of the book which exists |
| 0:49.6 | Finished hard copy book is in her hands and will soon be in mine and will soon be in all of yours if you'd like it to be |
| 0:55.8 | So that's very exciting |
| 0:57.8 | Solutions that's wonderful comes out of a month from Saturday |
| 1:02.0 | So go get your priors and people the MVP machine. It's real. Yeah, the priors matter. They're important |
| 1:08.5 | So we have a guest today also pretty important and exciting |
| 1:11.7 | We are talking to Jeopardy James Jeopardy James Holtzauer will be our guest later on this episode and he of course has been |
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