Effectively Wild Episode 1389: Too Good to Be Two

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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