Effectively Wild Episode 1483: Baseball in the 2020s
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and a slightly light-headed Sam Miller banter about baseball and vomit and 2019 World Series Game 7 losing pitcher Will Harris signing with the Nationals, then attempt to predict what baseball will look like in the 2020s, touching on the most celebrated retirements, how high the strikeout rate will rise, how many games will be played, which tactics will come to the fore, what the most notable trends of the decade may be, whether baseball will get better or worse, and more.
Audio intro: The Verve, "A New Decade"
Audio outro: Koufax, "Going to Happen"
Link to Ben on sick pitchers
Link to Sam’s end of the decade awards
Link to story on Harris’ Game 6 home run allowed
Link to story on Harris’ Game 7 home run allowed
Link to the history of rising strikeout rates
Link to Ben on the mid-plate-appearance pitching change
Link to Ben on trends that could define baseball’s future
Link to ESPN broadcast featuring Bat Track
Link to ESPN Bat Track data
Link to order The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And you did key! |
| 0:03.0 | The radio plays the sounds we make |
| 0:07.0 | And everything seems to feel just right |
| 0:11.0 | Coming through the art of life |
| 0:15.0 | When I've seen things |
| 0:18.0 | The sky of rules has left me blind |
| 0:22.0 | So come on listen along with me |
| 0:25.0 | I think it needs a little company |
| 0:29.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1483 of Effectively Out |
| 0:33.0 | Baseball Podcast from fangraphs.com |
| 0:36.0 | Fought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN along Ben Lindbergh |
| 0:42.0 | The ringer I've been. Hi happy New Year |
| 0:45.0 | Thanks happy New Year to you too |
| 0:46.0 | How are you doing? I'm doing well |
| 0:48.0 | Alright good. I am a, I'm in, I'm sort of in, I have the flu |
| 0:52.0 | And so I just want to warn you and everybody that |
| 0:55.0 | I'm perceiving the words I say about a quarter second after I say them |
| 1:00.0 | So everything's a little funky right now |
| 1:02.0 | I just, I apologize in advance |
| 1:06.0 | That's all |
| 1:07.0 | Would you describe that as a flu-like symptom? |
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