Effectively Wild Episode 1607: Goad Glovers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the groundswell of support for Mookie Betts as the best player in baseball, stand up for Mike Trout, and explain why Betts and Trout make an ideal duo as faces of the sport, then examine Yadier Molina’s frustration with Gold Glove voting, the sabermetric reappraisal of Yadi’s Hall of Fame case, and Jeff Luhnow’s latest attempt to proclaim his ignorance of the Astros’ sign-stealing operation before answering a listener email about playing a best-of-seven series continuously (with no breaks between games) and discussing which World Series team has the brighter long-term outlook, the Dodgers or Rays.
Audio intro: Cotton Mather, "The Gold Gone Days"
Audio outro: The Resonars, "Invisible Gold"
Link to Joe Posnanski on Mookie
Link to article about Yelich being better than Trout
Link to Luhnow’s interview
Link to Evan Drellich on Luhnow
Link to story about Molina’s Gold Glove complaint
Link to Bradley’s Gold Glove-related tweet
Link to Ben on catchers’ Cooperstown cases
Link to Ben on Yadi’s secret sauce
Link to SABR Defensive Index details
Link to study on Gold Gloves and defensive stats
Link to Sam on a 50-inning game
Link to Ben on the Dodgers’ blueprint
Link to FanGraphs’ farm rankings
Link to FanGraphs playoff coverage
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| 0:00.0 | Let's take hands and |
| 0:05.7 | Crawl down the crackling wildest |
| 0:10.0 | On this man I |
| 0:16.6 | I wanna watch you parade |
| 0:22.5 | From the gold, gold days |
| 0:28.0 | To the final place where I |
| 0:33.0 | Strain the fate |
| 0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1607 of Effectively Wild, a |
| 0:39.6 | Fangraft Spaceball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters, I'm Meg Raleigh |
| 0:43.6 | Fangrafts and I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringr. Ben how are you? |
| 0:47.6 | Doing okay, how are you? |
| 0:49.0 | Doing okay. Good. Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | So can I say a word in defense of Mike Trout? |
| 0:54.0 | Ah. How dare you? |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, not that he needs me to stand up for him here and not that anyone listening to this podcast at this point is going |
| 1:02.0 | Mike Trout is that guy good? Is he the best player in baseball? |
| 1:06.0 | If you're still on the fence about that, let me try to cook you onto one side. |
| 1:11.0 | So I saw a bad tweet a couple days ago about Mookie Betts and Mike Trout and it was something about how like Mookie has proved |
| 1:19.0 | He's a winner or something and he's the best player in baseball because he's on winning teams and Mike Trout isn't |
| 1:25.0 | And I don't think anyone really took that argument very seriously and I didn't bring it up on the podcast here, but I think now some credible sources are starting to bring up the Trout versus Betts debate. |
| 1:36.0 | And it's a fine debate to have. It's healthy to have debate. Well, some debates. |
| 1:41.0 | But I think this is one of the more benign debates that the country is having this week. |
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