Effectively Wild Episode 1397: Stripling Explains it All
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller talk to Ross Stripling, Los Angeles Dodgers starter and host of The Big Swing, about why he started and enjoys doing a podcast, how Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman influenced his pitching style, how he uses data to prepare for opponents, and how he feels about pitching in an era with the highest home-run rate ever. Then Stripling walks them through what he was thinking and why he threw what he threw in six memorable plate appearances from his career, including a showdown with his nemesis Mike Trout, the first and last batters he faced in his memorable, no-hit debut, his highest-leverage appearance, an 11-pitch PA, and a big moment from the 2017 World Series.
Audio intro: Superchunk, "Throwing Things (Acoustic Version)"
Audio outro: Buzzcocks, "Harmony in My Head"
Link to Stripling’s podcast
Link to Stripling’s Rich Hill episode
Link to Stripling’s fastball height by month in 2016
Link to EW episode with Sam’s reaction to Stripling’s debut
Link to Sam’s feature on Philip Humber
Link to Russell Carleton on the benefits of fouling off two-strike pitches
Link to Stripling PA 1 (vs. Trout)
Link to Stripling PA 2 (vs. Span)
Link to Stripling PA 3 (vs. Pagan)
Link to Stripling PA 4 (vs. Moroff)
Link to Stripling PA 5 (vs. Jay)
Link to Stripling PA 6 (vs. Bregman)
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | I'm blowing up the street like a thing |
| 0:04.8 | Skipping my back a few times you'll see |
| 0:09.3 | Head over heels, my hands on my heart |
| 0:13.5 | I'm making a promise and that's a start |
| 0:17.9 | You leave it at 12 for me |
| 0:22.3 | I'll see you up in the tallest train |
| 0:26.8 | You're throwing things down at me |
| 0:31.2 | I'm starting to fly well, I'm starting on my knees |
| 0:36.8 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1397 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:41.9 | The baseball podcast from Fingrats.com |
| 0:44.4 | brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:47.2 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN along with Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer Hey Ben |
| 0:51.9 | Hello |
| 0:52.6 | And we have a special guest today, another podcast host |
| 0:57.4 | He hosts a podcast called The Big Swing and his name is Ross Strypling |
| 1:01.1 | He's a pitch for the Dodgers. Hey Ross. Hey guys, thanks for having me |
| 1:04.4 | So you have a podcast that is 20-27 episodes in |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah, so a little bit shy what you guys got |
| 1:12.0 | You're getting there though, you have already done |
| 1:14.1 | You've gone through the process that we went through where |
| 1:16.8 | Your first episode was 13 minutes and that |
| 1:19.6 | You know, you probably thought yeah, that's a good episode and within 27 episodes |
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