Effectively Wild Episode 1464: The New Hot Stove Survey
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter anew about José Abreu’s perplexing RBI total, then predict and discuss the answers in the sequel to “the Crasnicks,” a survey of front-office executives on hot-button offseason questions conducted by ESPN’s Jesse Rogers. Along the way, they touch on the four-player Padres-Brewers trade involving Luis Urías and Trent Grisham, the Orioles placing Jonathan Villar on outright waivers, the definition of a “splash,” and more, plus post-discussion banter on the baseball as an object to hold in one’s hand and Ichiro Suzuki as a post-retirement two-way player, and a remembrance of the late Seymour Siwoff.
Audio intro: Courtney Barnett, "Anonymous Club"
Audio outro: Sleater-Kinney, "Anonymous"
Link to Rogers survey
Link to last Crasnick hot stove survey
Link to Sam’s first analysis of Crasnick survey responses
Link to Sam’s second analysis of Crasnick survey responses
Link to FanGraphs breakdown of Padres-Brewers trade
Link to Ichiro story
Link to The Numbers Game
Link to Siwoff obituary
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Let's start an anonymous call. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, make us name badges with question marks. |
| 0:15.0 | Come round to mine. |
| 0:20.0 | We can't swap close and drink wine all night. |
| 0:27.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1464 of Effectively Wild, the baseball podcast on Fangrafts.com. |
| 0:34.0 | Brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:36.0 | I am Sam Miller of ESPN along with Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer. Hello Ben. |
| 0:42.0 | I just noticed something on baseball reference. |
| 0:45.0 | I think this is new. This is a on a player's game logs. |
| 0:49.0 | They have something called RBI. It's sort of like an RBI stats box. |
| 0:55.0 | It has who the player drove in the most and then who the player was most driven in by. |
| 1:02.0 | Then it also has how many runners were on base with the average major league with that many played appearances. |
| 1:09.0 | How many RBI's I guess the average player would have with that many played appearances and how many they drove in. |
| 1:15.0 | It's interesting. I'm just like now seeing it. |
| 1:19.0 | I don't know if I could make anything interesting of any of this. |
| 1:23.0 | The reason that I thought there might be something interesting about Jose Braeus, RBI thing, |
| 1:30.0 | because he led the league in RBI's as we talked about. |
| 1:33.0 | We found him very odd. He drove in Liori Garcia 34 times. |
| 1:38.0 | I don't know if that's a lot. I haven't had time to figure out if that's a lot. |
| 1:42.0 | He didn't drive in any other Chicago White Talk. |
| 1:45.0 | 15 more than 15 times. That seems like a lot. |
| 1:48.0 | I don't know. What I'm saying is that I haven't figured out whether this is something I can make use of. |
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