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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1538: KBOpening Day

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about KBO season excitement and answer listener emails about MLB precedents for Warwick Saupold’s KBO complete game, whether MLB fandom would work if teams didn’t play games in their “home” cities, the ethics of time travel in Tommy John surgery rehab and if and when it makes sense to sacrifice life expectancy for greater achievement, Johnny Sturm and other players who’ve qualified for the batting title in their lone MLB season, how Ben and Sam are continuing to challenge themselves as writers and thinkers now that sabermetrics has gone mainstream, Bryan LaHair and the lowest-career-WAR All-Stars, and whether Joey Votto (or any other player) can foul off pitches until they get one they like, plus a Stat Blast about official scorers and “home cooking.”

Audio intro: Field Music, "Something Familiar"
Audio outro: Ages and Ages, "Divisionary (Do the Right Thing)"

Link to story about Spud Johnson
Link to Slate story on sabermetrics and humility
Link to list of lowest-career-WAR All-Stars
Link to Stat Blast song covers thread
Link to Ben Scruton’s Stat Blast song cover
Link to fouls/swing rate data
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

Shove the speed

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I always find a way to complicate it

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Text nothing at all

0:11.0

To be complicate it

0:23.0

To get something familiar

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Something familiar

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Something familiar

0:35.0

Something familiar

0:39.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1538 of Effectively Wild 8

0:44.0

A Spall Podcast for Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters

0:48.0

I'm Evan Gerhard-Hotter-Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN-Police

0:52.0

Evan, the other night when baseball Twitter was kind of collectively watching the first game of the KVO on ESPN

0:59.0

And everyone was really excited which was fun to see seems like it was very cathartic for people to see baseball on their television again with some recognizable broadcasters and some recognizable names

1:09.0

But I was just thinking when I saw a tweet from Jeff Passon who said

1:14.0

With bat flips and lawnmower ump and warwick-sappled shoving and web gems glor and carl ravage handling technical difficulties like a boss

1:22.0

And the sound off Dixon Machado's bat and side arming relievers and 2 am suits good to have you back baseball see you again tomorrow

1:30.0

Two of the players he named there were players who would be familiar to 2017 and 2018 Tigers fans

1:38.0

And prior to that day I would not have been thinking of I would not have been thinking I really want to see warwick-sappled

1:45.0

I want to hear the sound off Dixon Machado's bat given the output that he produced when he was with the Tigers

1:52.0

I would have guessed that the sound off Dixon Machado's bat was not very loud or impressive

1:57.0

But he hit a big homer in the KVO and the fact that people were so excited to see those players among many others

2:05.0

Players who I think we would have considered pretty forgettable prior to this moment and I don't think anyone was really going back to watch 2017, 2018 Tigers games to see these two guys

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