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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1752: Photo Finish

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Giancarlo Stanton’s awe-inspiring weekend at Fenway, the most aesthetically pleasing home run hitters, what the Cardinals’ 16-game winning streak portends (or doesn’t portend) for their playoff hopes, and the last week in the remaining playoff races. Then (26:32) they bring on Patreon supporter Dylan Buell to talk about his career as a professional sports photographer and answer listener emails about setting a winning-percentage cutoff for admission to the postseason, subtracting a strike for each pitch thrown outside the strike zone, a baseball equivalent of the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year Award, other baseball occupations that should be eligible for the Hall of Fame, how players’ appearances can affect fandom, baseball players sneaking onto Survivor, and the problems with plate-discipline highlights, plus Stat Blasts about precedents for the MVPs in both leagues coming from non-playoff teams, and the Rangers’ possibly unparalleled streak of innings without a lead.

Audio intro: The Glands, "So High"
Audio interstitial: The Pretty Things, "Photographer"
Audio outro: Bill Jr. Jr., "Run Home"

Link to Stanton homer against Chicago
Link to longest Stanton homer against Boston
Link to Ben on a Stanton homer from 2014
Link to video of that Stanton 2014 homer
Link to Strawberry dinger videos
Link to 1986 NLCS G3 homer
Link to 1986 World Series G7 homer
Link to Lindsey’s tweet about Stanton
Link to Lindsey on Stanton and Judge
Link to Glenallen Hill homer
Link to Sam on home run highlights
Link to Jay Jaffe on September records
Link to study on playoff randomness by sport
Link to Dylan Buell’s Instagram
Link to Nav Bhatia article
Link to 2016 article on Blue Jays scarf fan
Link to 2020 article on Blue Jays scarf fan
Link to article about Loretta’s Lounge
Link to article on Pros vs. Joes
Link to video of Jeff Kent on Survivor
Link to Ben on the Soto Shuffle
Link to article on the Rangers’ streak
Link to second article on the Rangers’ streak
Link to leadless streaks data
Link to 1916 Pirates/1932 Sox streaks data
Link to end-of-inning losing streaks data
Link to info on non-playoff MVPs

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0:00.0

I got a cell, oh, oh, hi, baby, forgive me, more don't, I don't mind, I got a cell, oh, oh, oh, why?

0:18.0

Baby, but we've been on top, I don't mind.

0:27.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1752 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:34.0

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fangrass and I am joined as always by Ben Limberg of The Ranger, Ben Howeriel.

0:39.0

I am still marveling at the strength of Jean-Carlist Dan, who really powered the Yankee sweep at Benway this weekend and just paid by Jodrop a couple times, which he will do more than just about any other major league player.

0:55.0

For that specific aspect of his game because he hits home runs that really no one else can hit and they don't look like anyone else's home runs.

1:04.0

So this weekend in Boston, he hit three, he hit one in each game, he drove in 10 runs, he was just an absolute monster and two of those homeers left the park entirely just went on to the Lanztown Street over the monster.

1:19.0

The one on Saturday was the biggest blow both in terms of the prodigyness of the blast itself and also in terms of how it swung the win probability and playoff expectancy and all of those things that was just a huge homer.

1:36.0

But it just went so far and the Dennis Echersley reaction to it on the Nesson broadcast was great because he was just like, oh, it was just like off the bat, like the second it left the bat and he saw the Red Sacks broadcast and he's just like, oh, and that's really the only appropriate reaction to some of his homeers, which just seemed to defy physics.

2:00.0

Like I have written entire articles or blogs or whatever you want to call them on junk roast it home runs just like explaining the physics of them or attempting to because he hits them on trajectories that no one else is really strong enough to hit them at and get the ball over the fence.

2:18.0

It's just on spiring sometimes.

2:20.0

It's yeah, I don't really know quite how to describe it. It's rare that you have someone who satisfies exactly what you imagine their strength would bear right like there are guys who you know like think about Yandhi Diaz right.

2:37.0

Yandhi Diaz looks like a guy who should only hit home runs got those big arms and it's like that is a big strong man and he does hit the occasional long ball.

2:45.0

But he also is like a good ground ball leader and it's just confusing to look at him and understand what his bad ball profile has been at points over his career.

2:53.0

And then you look at Stanton and you're like, if you can't send one out of Fenway, like what is your purpose here? Like why do you, why do you exist?

3:00.0

And I can't imagine what it would feel like to just have an 80 grade tool.

3:06.0

Right? Like I'm good at parts of my job. I don't mean this in like a self, you know, a facing sort of way. I'm not asking for compliments. But like he is he is an 80. He is he is real true 80 grade power.

3:19.0

And I just wonder what it would feel like to know that you can do that to a baseball not only to because it's just see the thing is you have to first you have to make contact with it.

3:30.0

That would be the hardest part for me. Right? Like forget how far I send it. It's hard for him sometimes too.

3:36.0

He has his moments. This is true. But it's like you make contact and then to be able to send it out of a building seems like it would be satisfying.

3:45.0

I think you'd feel good about yourself. You'd be like, I'm a special person.

3:49.0

It looks like he's enjoying it from what I can tell. And yeah, it's it's not even the ones that go the farthest or the highest with him that impressed me the most although those are impressive.

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