Effectively Wild Episode 177: How Much Does Velocity Loss Matter?/The Astros’ Runaway Strikeout Rate

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2013

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk about the performance impact of velocity loss, then discuss the Astros’ astronomical early-season strikeout rate.

Transcript

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0:00.7	So what's the email address?
0:02.8	Podcast at baseballperspectus.com.
0:06.7	Good morning, and welcome to episode 177
0:10.3	of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast
0:12.4	from baseballperspectus.
0:14.2	Thank you.
0:15.0	Yes, thank you.
0:15.8	I am Ben Lemberg.
0:16.8	You are Sam Miller.
0:18.6	Hello.
0:19.6	Hi.
0:20.6	Hi.
0:21.6	How are you?
0:22.4	Okay.
0:23.2	Good, pretty good.
0:26.2	You have a topic, we kind of have topics, I guess.
0:30.4	Surprise topics, this is our first,
0:32.1	I would say this is our first show of the year
0:34.2	where we did it the way we were supposed to do it.
0:35.8	Yeah, I didn't discuss it beforehand,
0:37.6	which we used to do all the time when we started.
0:40.2	It was a really, it was a pure process
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