Effectively Wild Episode 1381: Minnesota Surprise
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the Rays’ four-man outfield against Cavan Biggio and the gradual ascendance of four-man outfields across the league, Sam’s belated thoughts on the Mets and baseball in Avengers: Endgame, a few underappreciated aspects of the late Bill Buckner’s career, and the record number of MLB debuts this decade by sons of former big leaguers (including the return of star-caliber sons), then discuss the origins and sustainability of the Minnesota Twins’ best-in-baseball start to the season, what makes the Twins an entertaining team, Cleveland’s comparatively disastrous first two months, and more.
Audio intro: Garcia Peoples, "Four Walls"
Audio outro: Weezer, "Trampoline"
Link to picture of four-man outfield against Biggio
Link to article about Biggio’s swing change
Link to four-man-outfield instances per season
Link to Ben on the history of four-man outfields
Link to Buckner on the Fielding Runs leaderboard
Link to Buckner on the Defensive WAR leaderboard
Link to examples of the Mets in post-apocalyptic movies
Link to Travis on MLB fathers and sons
Link to Stubbs interview episode
Link to Foley’s book-signing event
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | We once lost it all before |
| 0:09.5 | Down to the last pair of shoes on |
| 0:17.5 | Nothing more to cover |
| 0:20.5 | Inside |
| 0:23.5 | These |
| 0:25.0 | For all |
| 0:28.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 13-E1 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:33.5 | The Baseball Podcast |
| 0:34.5 | Fangraphs.com |
| 0:36.5 | brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:38.5 | I am Sam Miller of ESPN and I'm with Ben Lindbergh |
| 0:41.5 | I'm the ringer |
| 0:42.5 | Hello |
| 0:43.5 | Hello |
| 0:44.5 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:45.5 | Don't are right |
| 0:46.5 | Cool |
| 0:47.5 | I want to mention something but I only heard it described on the radio |
| 0:50.5 | I have not checked the visuals so I might be wrong |
| 0:52.5 | But as I understand it, the rays used a 4-man outfield |
| 0:56.5 | Yesterday against Kevin BGO |
| 0:59.5 | Yes, I saw a picture |
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