Effectively Wild Episode 1648: Squeeze Play

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs author Ben Clemens break down the Marcus Semien, Andrelton Simmons, and Tommy La Stella signings, the Steven Matz trade, and Masahiro Tanaka’s decision to return to NPB’s Rakuten Eagles (with digressions about Japan’s tradition of awarding the uniform number 18 to aces and the greatness of Hiroki Kuroda) before […]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	MotuHands together.
0:06.8	�Let your music learn
0:07.6	coz the world won't be long
0:10.8	AND it could all be gone
0:14.8	to take your color to you
0:19.0	to squeeze the down
0:20.9	Hello and welcome to episode 1648 of Effective Wild with baseball podcast Ben Grass presented
0:30.8	by our Patreon supporters.
0:32.6	I am Ben Bembern of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Ben Grass, a little egg.
0:36.6	Hello.
0:37.6	And we are joined by Ben Grass's own Ben Clemens, who is here to explain pitching and also the
0:43.6	stock market.
0:44.6	Hello Ben.
0:45.6	Hey, Ben.
0:46.6	I don't know which of those will be more difficult to explain or more complicated.
0:50.9	It's not an easy assignment that you have drawn here.
0:53.9	We're going to talk about what is going on with the GameStop stock and how it relates
0:59.6	or doesn't to the mitts and Steve Cohen.
1:02.4	Later in the episode, we'll be joined by Dr. Barton Smith, who is coming on to tell us
1:07.9	with Ben's help about the latest advances in pitch design and development and some complicated
1:13.6	physics and the concepts of spin mirroring and seam shifted wake.
1:18.9	These are some fancy new trends and buzzwords in pitching that have been enabled by the
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.