Effectively Wild Episode 1434: The Cubs’ Lost Weekend
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Cody Bellinger‘s and Keston Hiura’s home runs, the Cardinals’ climactic four-game sweep of the Cubs, the Brewers’ surge sans Christian Yelich, the rapid reversal in the NL Central playoff picture, Craig Kimbrel, Dallas Keuchel, and the narrative about players signed at midseason, what went wrong for Chicago and how we should perceive the Cubs’ Theo Epstein era, how this year’s playoff teams got good, what we’ve learned about the efficacy of tanking, the AL wild card race, and the Padres firing Andy Green.
Audio intro: Phish, "Swept Away"
Audio outro: The Avett Brothers, "Swept Away (Sentimental Version)"
Link to article about the Triple-A home run rate
Link to NL Central playoff odds graph
Link to video of Ozuna homer
Link to article about forthcoming Cubs changes
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| 0:00.0 | Much I do is all I see |
| 0:07.0 | And I feel like it's surrounding me |
| 0:15.0 | The crowd intrudes all day |
| 0:19.0 | Till I'm finally swept away |
| 0:26.0 | I'm finally swept away |
| 0:32.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1434 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:37.0 | The baseball podcast from fangraphs.com |
| 0:39.0 | Brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Sam Miller, the ESPN along with Ben Lindbergh, |
| 0:45.0 | A wringer, Hypen, Hypen. |
| 0:47.0 | This one's partly on me, but Kestin Hirah, I would say, |
| 0:51.0 | Having 37 homers across two levels is kind of shocking to me |
| 0:56.0 | Not to you? |
| 0:58.0 | Well across two levels, I knew he had done well in AAA |
| 1:01.0 | I didn't know he had that many homers, but he had 19 and 57 games |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, well that does a lot |
| 1:08.0 | And he has 18 and 77 games in the majors |
| 1:11.0 | He's 22, he's a 22 year old second baseman |
| 1:14.0 | The prospect right up for him at baseball respect is this year |
| 1:17.0 | He said that he has more power than it looks like |
| 1:20.0 | I think it said maybe he has |
| 1:22.0 | He could have above average power |
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