Effectively Wild Episode 1391: Down Goes Frazier
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller review Sam’s latest observations on Jeff Sullivan-era EW episodes, including musings on Ketel Marte, the worst team draft of all time, and Johnnie LeMaster, then banter about Shohei Ohtani’s tools, Todd Frazier’s wild swings, Max Scherzer’s nose-breaking bunting practice, and Mickey Callaway’s odd pitching-change justification. They also answer listener emails about Scott Rolen and aliens, the Angels and the .500-est teams of all time, the Houdini-esque masters of escaping bases-loaded, no-outs jams, and a stolen base that wasn’t one, plus a Stat Blast about Ryne Sandberg and the rise of Rynes.
Audio intro: Blink-182, "Aliens Exist"
Audio outro: Cary Ann Hearst & Michael Trent, "Swing Low"
Link to Jeff’s Marte post
Link to Sam’s draft piece
Link to video of 2019 Frazier swing
Link to video of 2017 Frazier swing
Link to video of Pillar swing
Link to video of Scherzer bunt attempt
Link to Scherzer’s tweet about pitcher hitting and the DH
Link to “games above .500” discussion
Link to Callaway explanation
Link to picture of JBJ not stealing second
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, on my mark, and there's something very wrong. |
| 0:07.0 | And I know it must be late. |
| 0:12.0 | And gone since yesterday. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm not like you guys. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm not like you. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1391 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:30.0 | FanGrafts presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:33.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Binger, and I'm joined by Sam Miller of PSPN. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello, Sam. |
| 0:39.0 | How are you? |
| 0:40.0 | Sam? |
| 0:41.0 | Alright. |
| 0:42.0 | So we're going to do some emails today. |
| 0:44.0 | I've been told to expect a real bopper of a stat blast. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't want to get everyone's hopes up too high, but my hopes are high. |
| 0:51.0 | I actually have some supplementary stat blast today. |
| 0:54.0 | But you did a, can I just, you did a stat blast a while back during the Jeff years, |
| 1:00.0 | where you had Dan Hirsch look something up for you, which is great. |
| 1:04.0 | Dan's very helpful to you oftentimes. |
| 1:06.0 | This was absolutely a stat blast that you could have done faster by hand than the |
| 1:11.0 | amount of labor that went into writing the email to Dan and then Dan doing it. |
| 1:15.0 | And you know, it would have, you got to, I don't know. |
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