Effectively Wild Episode 1579: Our Favorite Small-Sample Seasons So Far
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about MLB’s BABIP bouncing back from its unusually low early level, the Tigers calling up a trio of top prospects in an attempted playoff push, and Cardinals rookie Roel Ramirez’s unprecedented debut, then answer a listener email with a Stat Blast about the longest regular-season and postseason team vs. team losing streaks (inspired by Cleveland’s current 20-game streak against Detroit). Then they draft their favorite small-sample player seasons so far, focusing on strange stat lines, surprising breakouts, and unlikely comebacks (plus a postscript on Fernando Tatis Jr.’s unwritten-rules-violating grand slam).
Audio intro: The Orange Peels, "So Far"
Audio outro: Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, "Surprise"
Link to video of Ramirez’s debut
Link to Robert Au’s Stat Blast Song cover
Link to Adam Ott’s team vs. team streak research
Link to MLB.com article on team vs. team streaks
Link to Andy McCullough on Hosmer
Link to Ben Clemens on Santana
Link to Tony Wolfe on Bundy
Link to Dan Szymborski on Bauer
Link to Ben on foreign substance use
Link to article about Yastrzemski’s surge
Link to article about Tatis’s 3-0 grand slam
Link to list of 3-0 grand slams
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| 0:00.0 | There's the way you feel when you've been with you |
| 0:03.8 | I hate it what you say |
| 0:05.6 | See what you do |
| 0:07.5 | And we wonder what we've got to know |
| 0:09.6 | It's something interesting |
| 0:11.1 | It goes on and on |
| 0:13.8 | And you took me so far |
| 0:16.0 | F-f-f-a |
| 0:18.7 | F-f-a |
| 0:22.2 | F-f-a |
| 0:25.9 | F-f-a |
| 0:28.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 1579 of Infective Wild |
| 0:33.3 | A Fangirlass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.5 | I'm Meg Raleigh Fangirlass and I'm joined as always by Ben |
| 0:39.3 | Lumber of the Rainer |
| 0:40.4 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:41.8 | You wanna play? How are you? |
| 0:43.4 | I am overly warm |
| 0:46.0 | A little vice-cat |
| 0:46.9 | Because it's hot in Seattle, for Seattle |
| 0:49.9 | This is 96, yesterday |
| 0:52.5 | Wow |
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