Effectively Wild Episode 1425: Just the Facts
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the Cardinals, the Nationals, and the NL’s increasingly interesting playoff races, the pluses and minuses of expanded September rosters, a caveat about time-traveling to see Mike Trout’s final game, and Justin Verlander’s third no-hitter and the role of health in determining pitchers’ careers, then discuss the significance of five fun (and not-so-fun) facts: Oakland’s history of slow starts and fast finishes; Cleveland’s performance against good and bad teams, Buster Posey’s second-half swoons and the veteran stars having the most disappointing seasons; the Marlins’ attendance and baseball’s future as a remote viewing experience; and the Tigers’ lack of above-average hitters and the entertainment value of terrible teams (plus an update on Aristides Aquino and facts about fastest starts).
Audio intro: The Resonars, "Three Times Around"
Audio outro: John Doe and The Sadies, "The Cold Hard Facts of Life"
Link to Glanville on expanded rosters
Link to Sam on Stallings
Link to Sam on Statcast no-hitters
Link to article about Verlander’s low point
Link to Sam’s power rankings contributions
Link to Max Marchi on who’s ahead of whom
Link to Neil Paine on the terrible Tigers
Link to Aquino story
Link to Sam on Bellinger
Link to Sam on Yelich
Link to Ben on knuckleballs
Link to order The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I am your free time around |
| 0:12.6 | Free time around |
| 0:19.2 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1425 |
| 0:22.1 | Effectively wild, the baseball podcast with bandgrapes |
| 0:25.0 | brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:26.9 | I am Sam Miller of PSPN along with Ben Lindbergh |
| 0:31.2 | The ringer, Hi, Hi, we had some beef with the NL playoff races |
| 0:36.1 | a few weeks ago you were not that interested in them because |
| 0:39.2 | the teams were all pretty lackluster and it seemed like wow how excited |
| 0:43.3 | could we be rooting for these mediocre teams for |
| 0:45.7 | one mediocre team to be slightly less mediocre |
| 0:48.0 | and particularly the central |
| 0:50.4 | particularly the central okay and it did not occur to me |
| 0:53.7 | at the moment but it has since occurred to me that the nature of having a |
| 0:57.4 | you know 17 races that presumably one of them will rise above every |
| 1:02.0 | other team that it's not going to be that the other six are all going to collapse |
| 1:05.0 | instantaneously but that one will get better and so now these couple weeks later |
| 1:08.8 | the Cardinals are leading the central they're on pace to win 91 games |
| 1:12.6 | the nationals are on pace to win 92 and get a wildcard spot |
| 1:16.8 | there is still that that second wildcard that is |
| 1:20.4 | going to be won by a team that is not currently very very very good |
| 1:24.7 | but you know even then someone's going to get hot and probably end up with |
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