Effectively Wild Episode 1414: Follow the Leader
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Mike Trout’s 28th birthday, the stats he’s led the league in, and the stats he still might lead the league in for the first time, the Mets’ recent hot streak and the way in which their season has been both tumultuous and predictable, Max Muncy and a cycle/walk-off triple attempt, and whether the basepaths should be wider, then answer listener emails about the best era in which to hit for the cycle, how teams should decide whether they’re out of contention, and baseball without timeouts, plus email-inspired Stat Blasts about whether it’s good to get a lot of walk-off wins and whether pitchers should swing away with the bases loaded and one out.
Audio intro: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, "Forever 28"
Audio outro: The Breeders, "Walk it Off"
Link to Ben on Trout’s league leadership
Link to Sam on walk-off triples
Link to Phil Birnbaum on forecasting team wins
Link to order The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Play the turpets in the hair Soon enough it's everywhere |
| 0:05.6 | Get it over with and just come mine |
| 0:12.3 | It's just my hair |
| 0:16.8 | It's just my hair |
| 0:21.2 | You see the ashes are calling the burn |
| 0:25.2 | The way now is over I got stuck in the mud |
| 0:29.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 14 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:33.8 | A baseball podcast for pangraphs presented by our Patreons |
| 0:37.4 | supporters I'm Ben Lemberg of the ringer with me is Sam Miller of ESPN Hello Sam |
| 0:42.6 | Hey bud |
| 0:43.1 | It is Mike Trout's 28th birthday, happy birthday Mike Trout |
| 0:47.0 | I wrote about him for his birthday and I picked up an exercise that |
| 0:52.2 | UNI conducted in was it episode 961 |
| 0:57.1 | So some time ago we did a little mini mic trap draft and we picked |
| 1:01.6 | Statistical categories that he had not yet led the league in that we were |
| 1:06.4 | projecting that he might one day lead the league in |
| 1:09.0 | And since we did that I think that episode was about three years ago |
| 1:13.4 | He has picked up another couple categories or he's about to |
| 1:16.6 | So intentional walks he is currently leading for what would be the third time |
| 1:22.0 | And home runs he is 38 dingers right now which is six more than his closest |
| 1:27.2 | competitor in the American League so unless he gets hurt or |
| 1:31.4 | Improppably slumps there's a pretty good chance that he's gonna get his first |
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