Effectively Wild Episode 175: Brian Roberts’ Injury, Baserunners Passing Baserunners, and the Pros and Cons of Trade Speculation

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2013

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss the latest injury to Brian Roberts, Evan Longoria running by Ben Zobrist, and the speculation about a Profar-for-Taveras trade.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 175 of Effectively Wild, the baseball
0:29.8	prospectus.com daily podcast. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. Ben, do you know how many?
0:35.8	They put that dot com in every now and then just so people know how to find the site.
0:40.4	Some people are not as internet savvy as others. Some people might it might be a situation where
0:46.8	they're their grandchildren are playing this podcast for them. They record it on like a tape.
0:54.4	Do you know who won 175 games in the majors? No. Derek Lowe. And nobody else. Why past 10s?
1:04.8	Well, no, that's actually why if he wins another game, nobody will have one 175 games.
1:12.0	Exactly on the dot. It will. Most number pretty much every well not pretty much. Most numbers are
1:19.4	represented, but 175 is dangerously close to being unrepresented. Although Mark Burley has 174
1:26.7	and Bartolo Cologne is 171. Cologne could conceivably end at 175. And so too could Kevin Millwood who,
1:35.9	unless I missed his official retirement, needs six and needs to stop after six more, which is
1:42.0	conceivable. Javier Vazquez, if he ever came through and played one more year, he has 165. So,
1:48.9	175 owes what 163? It's not necessarily going to be unoccupied, but right now it's in danger.
1:56.7	Well, by then we will be long past 175. We will be at 176. Do you know 176? No, I do not.
2:05.9	Frank Viola. Okay. All right. We're going to talk briefly about three topics today. Actually,
2:12.5	we skipped from one to three. We're not doing our usual two, and we're not doing our recently
2:18.8	usual one. We're doing three. So, do you want to talk about three topics? Okay. All right. So,
2:24.8	mine, just a brief one, Brian Roberts got hurt yesterday, Thursday. He stole second. He slid
2:34.9	into second head first, and he pulled a hamstring, assuming at this point that he will go on the
2:43.5	disabled list. I don't know if that's been announced yet. So, that was sort of sad, because Brian
2:50.3	Roberts has, he was off to a decent start in a couple games, and he has gotten hurt. I guess it is
2:59.6	now four years in a row. He has played 59 games in 2010, 39 games in 2011, 17 games in 2012.
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