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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1556: Zero to Sixty

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K 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, […]

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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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