Effectively Wild Episode 1738: Molina and the Mound

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh follows up on a Stat Blast that generated a lot of listener emails, then (13:04) talks to former major leaguer and current Angels catching coach José Molina about his unparalleled receiving skills, fooling umpires, the importance of framing compared to throwing, blocking, and game-calling, whether stealing strikes can be taught, aspects of catcher […]

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0:00.0	She come on in the morning, looking at your desk,
0:03.7	babbling in the prowl, caw, with the night and jail.
0:07.0	Olin'
0:10.6	Where you going, dude?
0:13.8	Olin'
0:17.5	Where you going, dude?
0:20.8	Hello and welcome to episode 1738
0:24.4	of Effective Wild and Baseball Podcasts from Fangross.
0:27.4	I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, my co-host Meg Rallye is on vacation today,
0:32.1	and it will take two people to take her place.
0:34.3	Later in this episode, I will be joined by RJ Anderson from CBS Sports
0:38.2	to talk about the Atlantic League,
0:39.8	moving the mound back by a foot, which happened early this month,
0:43.1	and we'll discuss some of the early effects of that,
0:45.9	as well as some of the consternation it caused among players,
0:49.0	and we'll discuss how changes like this should be handled,
0:52.1	and why this particular tweak caused such an uproar.
0:54.7	Before I bring in RJ, I will be joined by Jose Molina,
0:58.4	the former Major League catcher who had a 15-year career
1:01.2	with the cubs and the angels and the Yankees and the Blue Jays and the Rays,
1:04.5	he is currently the catching coach for the angels,
1:06.9	and I'll talk to him about catcher framing and robot umpires,
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