Effectively Wild Episode 1607: Goad Glovers

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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