Effectively Wild Episode 1373: Podcasts Per Hour
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Shohei Ohtani’s return, Mike Fiers’ no-hitter, and the hard-luck Reds, do a Stat Blast and banter about True Wins vs. no-hitters and other standout starts, and answer listener emails about baseball and the gambler’s fallacy, umpires estimating the outcome of every batted ball (and whether pitchers, hitters, or fielders are the most dispensable players on the field from an entertainment standpoint), why we measure pitch speeds in mph rather than ft/s (and whether we should adjust the way we present spin rate), whether NL managers have it harder than AL managers, the long-term stylistic evolution of baseball, and more (plus, Lenny Harris sends his regards to Jeff).
Audio intro: Jason Falkner, "Say it’s True"
Audio outro: Wilco, "Tried and True"
Link to Simmons catch
Link to Sam on Simmons
Link to Sam on Simmons again
Link to Syndergaard bobblehead
Link to FG post about mph vs. ft/s
Link to explanation of why Sprint Speed is measured in ft/s
Link to Ben on today’s players being the best
Link to Harris video
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | And say it's true, you really are the one that love me, the way you do. |
| 0:11.0 | And I was the only one who could help you to play a truth. |
| 0:19.0 | All the ugly people who tell you where you can and can't hurt you. |
| 0:27.0 | Say it's true. |
| 0:31.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1373 of Effectively While. |
| 0:35.0 | Baseball podcast from fangrass.com brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN along with Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, Vote Ben. |
| 0:45.0 | How's it going? It's going well, I'll show you how time is back. |
| 0:48.0 | How did he, how did he play? |
| 0:50.0 | Not particularly well, but I did watch the entire Angels game. |
| 0:53.0 | What a fun team. Some might say the most fun team. |
| 0:57.0 | Watched him. He walked and had an RBI ground out. |
| 1:00.0 | That's all he did hit a ball very hard that was caught at their base. |
| 1:05.0 | And I got to see trapped do some fun stuff. |
| 1:07.0 | And I got to see Angelton Simmons make a patented Angelton Simmons over the shoulder falling down pop-up catch. |
| 1:16.0 | And yeah, had a good time. Watch the whole game. |
| 1:19.0 | Awesome. Hey, that's that. I mean, just hearing you describe it is it was fun. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.0 | I if we ever do a draft of teams that it's fun to hear recapped. |
| 1:32.0 | Maybe the Angels will be higher than I had them. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, I was reminded that Jose Molina is the Angels catching instructor. |
| 1:39.0 | And it seems to me that the Angels have on their major league staff or roster probably like the three players. |
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