Effectively Wild Episode 1574: No Fans, Good Field?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about their minor league free agent draft results so far and whether this season has helped or hurt minor league free agents gain playing time, the continued watchability of revamped extra innings and the possibility of bringing back traditional extra innings for one week a year, and whether this season’s early big BABIP dip indicates that players are fielding better without fans, then answer listener emails about whether players should retain their rookie eligibility in the event of a shortened season, whether giving up in-person attendance forever would be worth guaranteeing a winning team, how the 2021 amateur draft order should be determined, and whether the lineup should reset in extra innings, plus a Stat Blast about quasi-walk-off hits in rain-delayed games.
Audio intro: Paul McCartney, "Distractions"
Audio outro: Beck, "No Distraction"
Link to minor league free agent draftees
Link to Sam on the automatic-runner rule
Link to Tango tweet about fielding performance
Link to article about basketball/soccer player improvements
Link to Lucas Apostoleris’s Stat Blast song cover
Link to Lucas’s Bandcamp page
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| 0:00.0 | Away from all this jazz, we could do anything alone |
| 0:10.0 | Distractions, like butterflies, a puzzle around my head |
| 0:18.0 | They're all alone, I think of you |
| 0:24.0 | And the things we do, if we only be true |
| 0:28.0 | With these instructions |
| 0:32.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1574 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:38.0 | Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:41.0 | I am Vemlenberg of the Ringer, joined by a similar of the SPN-OV-SAMP |
| 0:46.0 | Vener, you nervous about your minor league reagent team? |
| 0:51.0 | I honestly haven't looked at it lately, should I? |
| 0:54.0 | Well, you don't need to, because none of your players are active in the major leagues |
| 0:58.0 | And, you know, it is a short season, you don't have much time to make up ground |
| 1:03.0 | I mean, we're like a fifth of the way through the season |
| 1:07.0 | And you don't have an appearance yet, so I guess you're not nervous, but are you nervous now? |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, a little bit, how are you and Meg doing? |
| 1:15.0 | Meg's got Greg Holland, who has got a save for the Kansas City Royals |
| 1:20.0 | I've got six of my ten active right now |
| 1:24.0 | Wow |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah |
| 1:26.0 | Okay, yeah |
| 1:27.0 | Now I'm feeling pretty nervous |
| 1:29.0 | You think this would be, would you think this would be a bad year or a good year for Hit Rate? |
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