Effectively Wild Episode 158: Combining Bad Teams/Blocking the Plate/The 26-Man Roster

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2013

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about how many games a team formed from the three worst teams in baseball would win, whether catchers (and non-catchers) should be allowed to block the plate, and expanding active rosters.

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0:00.0	Elogical! Elogical! Please explain! Who are humans? Only humans can explain the behavior! Please explain!
0:08.0	I am not a program to respond in that area.
0:12.0	Good morning, and welcome to Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from Facebook Perspectus.
0:18.0	It is episode 158. I'm Sam Miller. I'm with Ben Lindberg. Ben, how are you doing?
0:24.0	I am well.
0:26.0	Great.
0:28.0	It's email Wednesday. Yeah.
0:32.0	It came a day earlier than I had anticipated because we didn't do a podcast Monday.
0:38.0	Yeah, and it actually also came an hour earlier than you anticipated because of daylight savings.
0:42.0	Oh, that's true. So a day and an hour, 20, 25 hours early.
0:46.0	Can we, before we start answering questions, can I say one brief thing about the winter meetings that...
0:52.0	Or not the winter meetings, the Saber conference that I didn't say yesterday?
0:56.0	The most surreal moment of the Saber conference was when I was asked by a member of the front office of the Reds.
1:06.0	Why we hate the Reds? Completely seriously.
1:10.0	Wondered why we hate the Reds. So I had to explain that whole backstory.
1:16.0	And I maybe have to explain it again because I feel like that...
1:20.0	We should explain it. Yeah.
1:22.0	30 or something and I assume that we have picked up new listeners and none of them have been crazy enough to go back and listen to our archives.
1:30.0	So that comes from, I don't know, after 30 episodes or so, someone had left a comment on one of our podcast posts,
1:38.0	chronicling every team that we had talked about to that point.
1:42.0	And I guess it makes sense that there would be a team that we hadn't talked about to that point if we were doing one or two topics for episode.
1:50.0	But it just so happened that we hadn't really talked about the Reds so much or his perception was that we hadn't talked about the Reds.
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