Effectively Wild Episode 1389: Too Good to Be Two
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Shohei Ohtani’s hot streak and future as a two-way player, Sam’s decision to listen to all of the Jeff-era EW episodes and his reactions to a few topics from the final few (including a description of Stan Musial’s retirement tour), and two research papers about pitchers’ perceived effort level and arm strain. Then they answer listener emails about where to host baseball games overseas, future universal uniform number retirements, outsourcing strategic experiments to other teams, and what type of player should make a minor-league hall of fame, plus a Stat Blast about Roy Smalley’s 1979 season and the worst- and best-case scenarios for Cody Bellinger’s second half.
Audio intro: Rain Parade, "Look Both Ways"
Audio outro: Roxy Music, "Both Ends Burning"
Link to Kram on Ohtani and Ruth
Link to Sam on the Ohtani two-way math
Link to first Fleisig paper
Link to second Fleisig paper
Link to Sam on the fastest fastballs
Link to Max Marchi on the fastest fastballs, part 1
Link to Max Marchi on the fastest fastballs, part 2
Link to 2015 Pacific Association simulation data
Link to article on minor-league halls of fame
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | To the Chantin' Chatter That's what it's about |
| 0:03.2 | The river that it's filled through the land |
| 0:06.7 | The river that it's filled that's my heart |
| 0:10.1 | See my world, she's gone, I'm tearing apart, oh yeah |
| 0:16.6 | Hey, great day |
| 0:20.0 | Whoa, oh yeah |
| 0:23.0 | The river that's filled |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1389 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.0 | I am Vellan Burke of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN, Los Angeles |
| 0:41.0 | Hey Ben, I just went to band graphs, opened up the drop down and I said |
| 0:45.0 | Show me the last seven days of baseball |
| 0:47.0 | Who's at the top of that leaderboard for offense |
| 0:50.0 | And it is Shohe O'Tani |
| 0:52.0 | Who hit for the cycle, perhaps the only cycle I've cared about on Thursday, he's been on fire lately |
| 0:57.5 | He made some mechanical changes, he's looking really great |
| 1:00.5 | And I think was it you who asked me earlier in the year when I said I was really looking forward to seeing O'Tani as a full-time hitter |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, whether I was worried about whether people would, if he did succeed, suggest that he should just be a hitter full-time |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, yeah |
| 1:15.0 | I wasn't that worried about it at the time |
| 1:17.0 | But I have already seen the first rum links about that, the excellent Jo-Shien, whose newsletter I subscribe to and recommend |
| 1:25.0 | And has recently said some nice things about the book, which I appreciate his latest edition of the newsletters all about how Shohe O'Tani has been great as a hitter |
| 1:34.0 | And perhaps he should just be a hitter |
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