Effectively Wild Episode 1375: The “Is This Guy Good?” Game
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about inside-the-park homers versus over-the-fence homers, the gratifying rise of home-run robberies, and the unique career of Edwin Jackson (who’s about to have played for the most-ever MLB teams and with the most-ever MLB teammates), then discuss the convergence of starting pitching and relief pitching and play a game to guess whether randomly selected relievers are having good or bad seasons (plus some closing banter about bobblehead dolls).
Audio intro: Al Green, "Have You Been Making Out O.K."
Audio outro: Paul McCartney, "Nod Your Head"
Sam on deep flyouts
Ben on HR robberies
Link to Rob Arthur on bullpen roles
Link to Ben on saves distribution
Link to Ben on bullpenning
Link to Sam on reliever roles and performance
Link to Rob Mains on bullpens
Link to Sam’s bobblehead video
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Would you love me? |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, will you? |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:05.0 | Would you become sad? |
| 0:06.0 | And come running back to me? |
| 0:09.0 | Oh, hey, you don't like it, you're okay. |
| 0:16.0 | Are you the making you okay? |
| 0:21.0 | Oh, no. |
| 0:22.0 | Are you the making you okay? |
| 0:28.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1375, the baseball podcast from fangrass.com, brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN, along with Ben Lumberg, the ringer, hello Ben. |
| 0:43.0 | I didn't say what the name of this baseball podcast from Faggress was. |
| 0:47.0 | Wait, what? |
| 0:48.0 | It's a mystery. |
| 0:49.0 | No, come on, I can't. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm from Faggress. |
| 0:51.0 | You're kidding. |
| 0:52.0 | No, wait, wait. |
| 0:53.0 | Good morning and welcome to that. |
| 0:54.0 | I didn't say good morning and welcome to effectively wild. |
| 0:57.0 | No, you're kidding. |
| 0:59.0 | Mystery podcast. |
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