Effectively Wild Episode 1435: What We Love About Baseball
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the diminishing roles (and salaries) of MLB managers, then answer listener emails about whether it’s better for teams to be balanced than unbalanced and how to decide whether to upgrade on offense or defense, how consistently good a player has to be to make the Hall of Fame without ever leading the league, and what they love most about baseball, plus a Stat Blast about steroids and the league-wide distribution of dingers in the 2000s and today.
Audio intro: Bright Eyes, "From a Balance Beam"
Audio outro: Dr. Dog, "Mystery to Me"
Link to Rosenthal article about managers
Link to FiveThirtyEight on balanced rosters
Link to Ben on runs scored vs. runs saved
Link to BP on runs scored vs. runs saved
Link to Ben on Baines
Link to Rob Arthur on steroids and the home run surge
Link to Ben on the steroid era
Link to Craig Edwards on the lack of 60-homer hitters
Link to Rich Hill highlights
Link to order The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's a fan grabs podcast called effectively wild that our buddy Ben Lundbury is hosted for a while. |
| 0:07.0 | Let's see if Carson can be that this happening. It's outside. It's three and one. |
| 0:12.0 | A lot of arms side here for Carson on the misses. |
| 0:17.0 | Three one. |
| 0:20.0 | That's drilled to right field and deep by Ramirez and gone. |
| 0:25.0 | It's a grand slam for Jose Ramirez and the Indians have taken a four-nothing lead. |
| 0:32.0 | His first hit bat in a month is a four-banger. |
| 0:38.0 | It was a small mistake sometimes as it all took. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm standing at my wrist, holding at the time it's right. |
| 0:49.0 | When the planets were aligned, but we know planets too are aligned. |
| 0:54.0 | It's just the compass of the sun. |
| 0:57.0 | The little pain in my will spinning senseless through and this black sky. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1435 of Effectively Wilder, the baseball podcast from Fedgrass, |
| 1:11.0 | presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 1:13.0 | I am Ben Lundbury. |
| 1:14.0 | Of the ringer and with me is Sam of ESPN, the low Sam. |
| 1:18.0 | I've been going to do some emails today. Anything you want to vent for about before him? |
| 1:22.0 | I just want to correct myself. I said that there had been one picture complete game this year with a one run margin of victory and one in 2017. |
| 1:32.0 | Both of those things are true, but I said that Jimmy Nelson through the one this year. |
| 1:35.0 | Jimmy Nelson through the one in 2017. |
| 1:37.0 | The one this year was our old friend, Noah's Cinderguard, true win. |
| 1:40.0 | Oh, right. Of course. |
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