Effectively Wild Episode 1409: Appointment Podcasting
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up on the feedback to the preceding “best players of the decade” episode and minimum innings vs. three-pitch innings, then banter about Mike Trout‘s new-and-improved throwing arm (and Ross Stripling’s new-and-improved ability to retire Mike Trout), trade-deadline procrastination, the Giants’ and Mets’ outlooks, the future of Noah Syndergaard, the newly slider-iffic (and highly effective) Jacob deGrom, the retirement and legacy of Troy Tulowitzki, which of baseball’s best pitchers are appointment viewing, Stevie Wilkerson and the first position-player save, and Ben’s feature article on the mid-PA-pitching-change strategy previously discussed on the podcast.
Audio intro: Dire Straits, "Your Latest Trick"
Audio outro: Dr. Dog, "Do the Trick"
Link to Eric Stephen on Trout’s throw and throwing arm
Link to Michael Baumann on Strasburg
Link to Zach Kram on Tulowitzki
Link to video of Wilkerson save
Link to Ben on mid-PA pitching changes
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | And we're standing outside of this wonderland |
| 0:04.0 | Looking sober, even so bereft |
| 0:08.0 | Like a bow and re-bomb when he finally understands |
| 0:12.0 | The bottle's empty and there's nothing left |
| 0:16.0 | I don't know how it happened |
| 0:20.0 | It was faster than the eye, you could feel it |
| 0:24.0 | But all I can do is hand it to you |
| 0:30.0 | And your latest trip |
| 0:32.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 14 or 9 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.0 | A baseball podcast brought to you by Fangrafts |
| 0:38.0 | And our Patreon supporters, I'm Meg Rowley of Fangrafts |
| 0:41.0 | And I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer |
| 0:44.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:46.0 | I'm doing alright! |
| 0:48.0 | Today we will be talking about the best five players of the 2000s |
| 0:52.0 | It seems like that's all people want us to do now |
| 0:55.0 | We will be on that last episode that went over well |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, I'm so glad that people enjoyed it |
| 0:59.0 | You were so concerned that we would have like 10 minutes of conversation |
| 1:03.0 | I'm like, I don't know Ben, we managed to go for like an hour and a half |
| 1:06.0 | When you and I don't have a predefined topic |
| 1:09.0 | I know, I was thinking like, well how's this possibly going to get like, okay, so we're just going to say our top five |
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