Effectively Wild Episode 1425: Just the Facts

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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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 […]

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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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