Effectively Wild Episode 1431: Curtains for Trout
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the Twins’ missed opportunity for a mid-plate-appearance pitching change, more mind-boggling home run facts about the year of the dinger, fun facts about the Diamondbacks and Jarrod Dyson, Guy Fieri endorsing Spencer Torkelson and which celebrity character references might make them draft a player higher, and how to answer the Phillies’ interview question for a quantitative analyst position, then discuss Mike Trout’s season-ending injury and what his accumulating missed time might mean for his career.
Audio intro: Sonny & The Sunsets, "The Application"
Audio outro: The Only Ones, "Curtains for You"
Link to Ben on mid-PA pitching changes
Link to story on the one-baserunner Diamondbacks win
Link to video of Rich Aude’s bat flip
Link to 2018 Phillies interview question
Link to 2019 Phillies interview question
Link to Jay Jaffe on the end of Trout’s season
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | I filled out the application with the I give it me |
| 0:10.0 | She put it on a stack with all the others |
| 0:15.0 | I walked out on a tissue |
| 0:20.0 | And I went like telephone and it's a must |
| 0:26.0 | I started to eat because I am a champion |
| 0:31.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1431 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.0 | Baseball podcast, bandgrass.com, brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:41.0 | I'm going to say a Miller, yes, be in, along with Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer |
| 0:45.0 | Hey Ben, hi, the other day I was watching a game in which |
| 0:48.0 | So do you know who Devon Smeltzer is? I know the name |
| 0:52.0 | Alright, Devon Smeltzer is a rookie 23 year old pitcher with Minnesota Twins |
| 0:58.0 | He is a lefty who throws in the game that I was watching |
| 1:02.0 | He threw, you know, like high 80s, low 90s |
| 1:05.0 | Minnesota was doing a bullpen game, more or less |
| 1:07.0 | It was the first game of a double header against Cleveland |
| 1:09.0 | And Smeltzer had kind of gotten through two and a half innings |
| 1:15.0 | And then he ran into some trouble |
| 1:17.0 | And so the bases were loaded |
| 1:19.0 | The Twins were up to and nothing and Carlos Santana was up |
| 1:24.0 | And so the previous batter Smeltzer had gotten ahead |
| 1:27.0 | O2 on Oscar Mercado |
| 1:29.0 | But he doesn't really at least in the game that I was watching |
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