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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1682: You Make the Call

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about why they haven’t been talking about Bryce Harper, follow up on previous points about the automatic-runner rule, optional home run trots, and player switcheroos, discuss the latest report about the Mets’ front-office culture and team president Sandy Alderson, and answer listener emails about two automatic-runner-rule variants, first base […]

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0:00.0

Don't talk, talk anymore, don't you talk anymore, don't talk anymore, you want to fight your old friend

0:10.0

You want to fight your old friend, you want to fight your old friend

0:20.0

You want to fight your old friend, you want to fight your old friend

0:36.0

You want to fight your old friend, you want to fight your old friend, you want to fight your old friend

0:52.0

You want to fight your old friend, you want to fight your old friend

1:20.0

He's been a fan-gress article on him since he was a fan-gress

1:48.0

I could be wrong, but just quickly looking before we started recording, I don't think there's been one

1:58.0

I don't think there should have been one, but not in a way that calls attention to himself

2:04.0

I don't think there's no one in a way that calls attention to himself

2:20.0

He's been a fan-gress article on him since he was a fan-gress article on him since he was a fan-gress

2:42.0

I guess it is in the sense that he has not repeated that MVP campaign, but it's just odd for Bryce Harper to be in the position of just like kind of blending into the background like he's just another good player now

2:58.0

Whereas for so long, he was like the center of attention because it was like all of the prospect type for Harper

3:04.0

And then the trout versus Harper battle, who's better who you got, and that has pretty conclusively been decided in favor of trout

3:14.0

And there was also, I think, a perception that Harper was overrated

3:18.0

Like when there would be those player polls every year, I forget who did them sports illustrated maybe

3:24.0

And then the first player would be the most overrated player in baseball and it was always Bryce Harper, I think as recently as March 2019, he was identified as the most overrated player

3:36.0

And I don't know if he's become underrated, but it doesn't feel like he's overrated right now it feels like suddenly no one's really talking about him

3:44.0

And that's not much because like if you're going to talk about someone who is roughly who is age who is amazing, then you're going to talk about Mike Trout or Mooky Pets

3:54.0

And if you're going to talk about the next generation, then you're talking about the Akugas and Soto's and Tatisis, etc

4:00.0

And Bryce Harper is just good

4:04.0

And so, you know, he's not really demanding our attention anymore, which is odd, it's an unfamiliar situation for Bryce Harper to be in

4:12.0

And I wonder if it tells us a little something about just how important the team context for even very good players is

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