Effectively Wild Episode 1402: Justin Time
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game, Justin Verlander’s and Rob Manfred’s comments about the juiced ball, the recent rapid turnover among elite hitters, and an instance of premature celebration featuring Fernando Rodney, then answer listener emails about Verlander’s on-pace-to-be-historic strand rate, whether we should have recognized that Verlander’s decline in Detroit wasn’t permanent, whether we should redefine “scoring position,” whether it’s harder to make the majors or to stay there, and what would happen if strikeouts triggered ejections, plus a Stat Blast about a showdown (Sho-down?) between Shohei Ohtani the hitter and Shohei Ohtani the pitcher.
Audio intro: Paul McCartney and Wings, "Arrow Through Me"
Audio outro: Jonathan Coulton, "Sticking it to Myself"
Link to Baseball Savant Derby home-run tracker
Link to Zach Crizer on Verlander
Link to Jayson Stark on Verlander
Link to Ben on hitter turnover
Link to story about Rodney’s blown save
Link to video of Rodney’s blown save
Link to Stat Blast song
Link to Log5 explanation
Link to Sam on theoretical batter-pitcher matchups
Link to Rob Arthur on batter-pitcher matchups and exit velocity
Link to Mike Fast on batter-pitcher matchups and quality of contact
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | You couldn't have done the worst thing to me |
| 0:07.0 | If you'd have taken a nap and won't arrive through me |
| 0:11.0 | I could have been a fighter plane |
| 0:14.0 | Fying in a riot direction with no other thing |
| 0:20.0 | Did you remember love and affection |
| 0:23.0 | Come on, get up, get on the way |
| 0:26.0 | Bring your love |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1402 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:34.0 | A baseball podcast from Fan Gratz presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer and I'm joined by Sam or of ESPN |
| 0:42.0 | Hello Ben! So I guess Monday's Derby made a pretty convincing case |
| 0:47.0 | For your Derby is a standalone sport hypothesis |
| 0:50.0 | Well, I don't know. We'll see. It was a good idea |
| 0:53.0 | It was a good Derby. The million dollars really seemed to change some things |
| 0:57.0 | I don't know, maybe not |
| 0:59.0 | But it seemed like it changed some things with the players |
| 1:01.0 | They seemed really interested in it |
| 1:03.0 | I don't know, it's hard to know they always wanted to win |
| 1:05.0 | But it felt like Peter Lanzo had a little million dollars |
| 1:08.0 | Kind of going through his head during some of that |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah |
| 1:12.0 | So that's important. There was a period |
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