Effectively Wild Episode 1748: On the Clock
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2021
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the potential benefits of a 15-second pitch clock and the massive winning-percentage mismatch between the NL’s impending wild card winners, then answer listener emails about intentionally swinging at a wild pitch to reach base, the obsolescence of ERA, whether Statcast should be used instead of video to make fair-foul calls, and whether DJ LeMahieu is good, then meet major leaguers Kaleb Ort and Sammy Long and do Stat Blasts about whether relievers are really all failed starters and the Pirates’ historic failure to complete sweeps (plus a postscript about Austin Adams’ record-breaking HBP).
Audio intro: Remember Sports, "Clock"
Audio outro: The Scruffs, "I’m a Failure"
Link to Jayson Stark on the pitch clock
Link to Mike Sonne on pitch clocks and injuries
Link to J.J. Cooper on pitch clocks and game times
Link to MLB time of game by year
Link to Grant Brisbee on time between pitches
Link to David Smith on time between pitches
Link to Smith on why games get longer
Link to Rob Arthur on hitters’ time between pitches
Link to Rob on pitchers’ time between pitches
Link to EW episode about wild card game
Link to Travis Sawchik on the wild card round
Link to Griffin strikeout post
Link to Griffin strikeout video
Link to Griffin strikeout newspaper clipping
Link to Fuentes strikeout video
Link to Fuentes strikeout podcast
Link to Sandoval swing video
Link to Sam Miller on the ERA qualifier threshold
Link to J.J. on the ERA qualifier threshold
Link to story on Statcast’s margin of error
Link to story on Hawk-Eye in tennis
Link to Chet Gutwein on LeMahieu’s power outage
Link to Jeff Sullivan on LeMahieu’s power
Link to Kenny Kelly on LeMahieu and park effects
Link to story on Ort’s debut
Link to Oort cloud explainer
Link to Susan Slusser on Sammy Long
Link to story on Long’s debut
Link to Chafin’s “Failed Starter” shirt
Link to relievers Stat Blast data/graph
Link to Stat Blast sweeps data
Link to “Full Nelson” tweet
Link to current “Full Nelson” club
Link to Zach Kram on Adams
Link to Adams’ record HBP
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| 0:00.0 | Make something go just kidding how I just sickle |
| 0:05.6 | Till the clock runs out for it I'm going on and on and on |
| 0:12.6 | Make something good just be it I'm just sickle |
| 0:21.2 | Till the clock runs out for it I'm going on and on |
| 0:28.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1748 effectively wild baseball |
| 0:33.2 | podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.8 | I'm Ben Lundberg of the ringers and I'm Meg Rally of fan graphs |
| 0:40.2 | Hello Meg. Hello. Did you read or absorbed the contents of the |
| 0:45.2 | Jason Stark article for the athletic this week about the |
| 0:49.0 | pitch clock in low A? No but let me guess he likes the pitch clock. |
| 0:55.0 | He does and seemingly everyone else who has experienced it does |
| 0:59.8 | the pitch clock has been a part of some levels of mind and |
| 1:03.0 | league baseball for several years now especially at the upper |
| 1:06.0 | levels but that's been the 22nd pitch clock. This is the 15 |
| 1:10.3 | second pitch clock on low A west this year which was |
| 1:14.5 | implemented mid season in June and Jason's got all the stats |
| 1:19.8 | and before the pitch clock was implemented the average time of |
| 1:24.5 | game there was three hours and two minutes since the pitch |
| 1:28.0 | clock it's been two hours and 41 minutes which is a pretty |
| 1:32.6 | sizable difference that is 21 minute decrease in average |
| 1:37.0 | game length and not only that but it's been accompanied by an |
| 1:41.6 | uptick in offense and Jason doesn't break it down by like |
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