Effectively Wild Episode 1556: Zero to Sixty
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2020
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley answer listener emails about statistical leaders and record-setters in a small-sample season, what would make winning a championship in a 60-game season more impressive, the odds of good teams missing the playoffs, bad teams making the playoffs, and teams having unrepresentative 60-game stretches, the possibility of losing a perfect game, what types of teams are built for this strange season, KBO’s catching techniques compared to MLB’s, why American sports are averse to ties, and service-time manipulation and top-prospect promotion in a short season, plus a Stat Blast about Billy Hamilton’s value as an extra-inning runner, featuring FanGraphs writer (and visiting Stat Blaster) Ben Clemens.
Audio intro: The Rock*A*Teens, "Billy Really"
Audio outro: Tennis, "Runner"
Link to Ben on the randomness of a 60-game season
Link to Sam and others on short-season stats
Link to Jay on team entropy in a 60-game season
Link to Stark on losing a perfect game
Link to Alex Eichler’s Stat Blast song cover
Link to Jeremy Frank’s Hamilton hypothetical
Link to Ben Clemens on the Hamilton scenario
Link to Kapler’s comments on Hamilton
Link to Jon Tayler on the extra-innings-runner rule
Link to Sam’s 2014 Hamilton hypothetical
Link to Reds pitching staff article
Link to Eno on team pitching staff depth
Link to paper on America’s aversion to ties
Link to article about the history of ties in baseball
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| 0:00.0 | How's Billy Watts want? He ain't really into fame Oh, why? The price that it takes more? |
| 0:12.3 | Why, the price that it takes really, my state Oh, why? |
| 0:21.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 1556 and effectively wild of the Angrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:28.3 | I'm Meg Raleigh of Angrafts and I enjoyed as always the Ben and Berger of the Ringer band Power You |
| 0:33.2 | I'm doing alright, tell you |
| 0:35.2 | You're okay |
| 0:36.2 | Okay |
| 0:37.2 | We are here to do some emails |
| 0:39.2 | So we're just gonna go straight into it |
| 0:42.2 | And we will have an extra episode this week so we can look forward to that on your feeds sometime soon |
| 0:48.2 | But now listen to emails and stat blasts galore |
| 0:52.3 | So we've gotten a couple genres of question here and this is one that multiple people have sent so |
| 1:00.2 | Sean Patreon supporter says |
| 1:02.7 | What if someone bats 400 this season with that count has anyone carried that through 60 games in recent years? |
| 1:09.7 | It seems like this is the only season where it would be possible in my lifetime |
| 1:12.7 | And similar question from Lewis another Patreon supporter who says if we get a shortened season |
| 1:18.8 | How do you think we will look at performances that could end up being significant or even record setting? |
| 1:23.8 | Most years hitting 400 would be a huge storyline and seen as a historic accomplishment because hitting 400 over 162 games is so difficult |
| 1:32.3 | It has not been done in nearly 80 years |
| 1:34.6 | hitting 400 over 50 or 60 games would not be easy but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility |
| 1:39.8 | If a player hits 400 this season how would it be viewed? |
| 1:42.8 | I can't imagine anybody thinking it was as impressive as it would be if it was in a regular 162 game season |
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