Effectively Wild Episode 1595: How Cleveland Became a Pitching Powerhouse
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about late-season playoff uncertainty, whether they’re happy with how the playoff field has turned out, the Cubs’ strange season, the surprising number of top prospects who’ve made their MLB debuts in 2020, and the percentage of promoted prospects who’ve skipped the upper levels of the minors. Then (20:47) they talk to free agent left-handed pitcher David Speer about spending six seasons in Cleveland’s system, witnessing the team turn into a pitcher development powerhouse, the organization’s individualized plans for pitchers, learning about and being receptive to advanced stats and technology, nature vs. nurture, playing with many members of Cleveland’s current staff, reaching Triple-A, getting released and job-hunting in 2020, the reduction of the draft and contraction of the minors, minor league pay, and preserving player dev advantages.
Audio intro: Jim James, "Out of Time"
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Audio outro: The Roches, "Losing Our Job"
Link to Jay Jaffe on the playoff picture
Link to Dan Szymborski on the Cubs’ offense
Link to Ben on 2020 prospect promotions
Link to Lucas Apostoleris on Crochet’s stuff
Link to Travis Sawchik on Cleveland’s homegrown rotation
Link to Zack Meisel on Cleveland’s pitching development
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| 0:00.0 | I'm even behind the times over here the times over |
| 0:05.0 | Maybe I'm just out of time out of luck |
| 0:11.0 | Out of touch I gotta wheel feeling |
| 0:18.0 | Way too much |
| 0:22.0 | Out of season, out of rhyme |
| 0:28.0 | Out of the rhyme |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1595 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:39.0 | Fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangrass and I enjoyed as always by Ben Limberger of the ringer Ben How are you? |
| 0:47.0 | I am okay, how are you? |
| 0:49.0 | I'm good I wish I knew who was playing who come Tuesday |
| 0:53.0 | But otherwise I can't complain |
| 0:55.0 | Not great for you not to know but maybe good for baseball that there's some uncertainty about that |
| 1:01.0 | Hitting into the final weekend |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah we have a very important weekend slate which you know this is this is the whole idea of expanding the postseason |
| 1:11.0 | I suppose and it's been quite fun to watch the centrals |
| 1:15.0 | Spend like early playoffs pretty much the whole week so yeah it does make for you know small thorny |
| 1:22.0 | Logistical challenges for baseball writers and editors but people don't care about those they just want good baseball |
| 1:27.0 | So that's that's what they're gonna get so that's good |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, so there are still a few teams whose fans are kind of on tender hooks as we are recording at least |
| 1:36.0 | You've got the the fillies and the giants and the brewers and a couple others that are hanging on to slim hopes at contention |
| 1:44.0 | Even the angels as we speak have not been eliminated yet |
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