Effectively Wild Episode 1512: Let’s Predict This Decade
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Padres outfield un-fun facts, then discuss MLB’s $1 million “The Vault” competition to predict several statistical leaders of the 2020s, producing their picks in each category, reviewing how hard it would have been to pick the winners of the 2010s, and ruminating on the nature of baseball predictions and the inexorable impending decline of Mike Trout.
Audio intro: Tacocat, "Crystal Ball"
Audio outro: Tame Impala, "Let it Happen"
Link to MLB’s vault competition
Link to Dan on Trout’s inevitable decline
Link to Ben on Lords of the Realm
Link to Sam’s last Pujols pain post
Link to Trout baby video
Link to Smith LASIK surgery story
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | When so many times I exist and I feel fine |
| 0:09.0 | Baby I could reply |
| 0:12.5 | What a time to be very good at life |
| 0:19.0 | I'm so happy with the risk of all the times I got |
| 0:25.0 | Baby I could reply |
| 0:30.0 | What a time to be very good at life |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1512 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:42.0 | The baseball podcast on bandwrefs.com brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:47.0 | I am Sam Miller, ESPN, along with Ben Lindbergh of the Ring of the Globe |
| 0:52.0 | Hello Ben, I was just looking at the RBI titles of the 2014 Padres |
| 0:58.0 | And... |
| 0:59.0 | That's what it does |
| 1:00.0 | Particularly the Outfield, I mean we don't talk much about RBI's |
| 1:04.0 | But we still do know the basics of what is a good number of RBI's for the season |
| 1:09.0 | We don't talk much about the 2014 Padres either |
| 1:13.0 | And so these are the four Padres who had the most played appearances |
| 1:18.0 | As Outfielders for the team that year |
| 1:20.0 | Will Venable played 146 games and he drove in 33 runs |
| 1:26.0 | That's very low, right? 33 runs for a right fielder who played on a defensive replacement at times |
| 1:32.0 | Is that why he had so many games? Or no, was he actually starting all the time? |
| 1:35.0 | I mean he... I... I'm okay, a little bit up |
| 1:38.0 | It's less fun to point out that he only had 448 played appearances |
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