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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1434: The Cubs’ Lost Weekend

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K 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 […]

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Much I do is all I see

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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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