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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1469: The Cole-Powered Yankees

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller debate the merits of a possible Mike Trout fun fact, banter about Nomar Mazara and the evolving definition of “slugger,” discuss the record Gerrit Cole contract and its implications for the Yankees, the battle to be the best team in baseball, the Dodgers and Angels without Cole, baseball’s competitive balance, Scott Boras, the perplexing free-agent market, and more. Then they review the last 16 of Bill James’s 30 recent suggestions for counteracting baseball’s slowing pace of play and rising strikeout and home-run rates, and Ben talks to Rob Arthur of Baseball Prospectus (1:32:33) about the findings of MLB’s latest study on the baseball’s behavior, the causes of the record homer rate, and the future of offense.

Audio intro: Jale, "Nine Years Now"
Audio interstitial: The Apples in Stereo, "Same Old Drag"
Audio outro: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, "Tearing at the Seams"

Link to Beyond the Box Score draft post
Link to Ben on Cole implications
Link to David Schoenfield on the highest-paid pitchers
Link to Travis on foul balls
Link to ESPN story about the ball
Link to Rob’s story about the ball
Link to Bill James Handbook 2020
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

I'm trying hard now to take myself away from you

0:08.0

And I'm pretty sure that it's always and I can't react to you

0:15.0

But when you find out that it's always been me

0:23.0

That's the safety, that's the money from more than nine

0:28.0

It's the night

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1469 of effectively wild a baseball podcast from fan crafts presented by our Patreon supporters

0:39.0

I'm Ben Mimberg of the Ringer joint by Sam Miller of ESPN Hello Sam

0:43.0

Ben, I was playing along with the Scott Boris game that you and Meg were doing

0:48.0

And when it got to apples and onions, I thought well that's a very well crafted, very convincing attempt

0:56.0

I liked it but I immediately screamed out fake because apples and onions, those are the official produce of the state of Washington

1:05.0

Where Meg lives, it seems too suspicious to me, it's the two leading exports from their agricultural industry

1:14.0

The state vegetable and the state fruit, I asked Meg whether I was on to something and she says no

1:19.0

In fact that I had I had tricked I had overthought it that she says that there's no, no nothing significant about it at all

1:27.0

Even even in her mind subconsciously

1:30.0

But if it were subconscious, she would know

1:32.0

That's true, right like if you watch that Darren Brown specials from England, do you ever watch the Darren Brown specials?

1:39.0

No, it's a good way to lose an afternoon

1:42.0

Because he does these like mentalist things where he has like an audience and somebody will put a like a word in an envelope and then like he'll guess the word

1:54.0

And in fact the reason that they chose that word is because like four and a half weeks earlier Darren Brown sent them a like a brochure for a watch catalog

2:04.0

And on the seventh page is the watch catalog the word that he wanted them to say was on the page and he knew that they would see it somehow

2:11.0

Very mysterious and it's not that convincing

2:14.0

All right, I have a fun fact for you. I wanted to know if you think it's a good fun fact. Okay. Mike Trout of course drafted in I like it

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