Effectively Wild Episode 1786: The Rosin for the Season

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the United States of Shohei Ohtani and Baseball-Reference player page popularity, a perplexing fact about fielding percentage, time-shifted baseball (and watching only wins), learning to love a sport later in life, whether pruney fingers would be a performance-enhancer for pitchers, the great rosin bag battle of the 1920s […]

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0:00.0	I'm so glad to be met and I like you so much and I'm all so glad that I got all those friends
0:12.5	Pop to L arety
0:30.3	Music
0:38.8	Hello and welcome to episode 1786 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from
0:45.4	FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lemberg of the
0:49.4	Ringer joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. Hello Meg. Hello. You live in a
0:55.0	Shoheotani state and you are a native of a Shoheotani state. Yeah. And I am
1:01.3	not and I'm feeling bad about it. I assume you saw baseball references,
1:05.9	year-end stats. They did sort of an equivalent of Spotify wrapped but for
1:10.8	baseball reference traffic. So they had the most viewed player pages and the
1:15.8	most viewed team pages and then they had the most viewed player pages by state.
1:20.5	So they have a map of the country and they have headshots on each state. Just
1:26.8	the most popular player by page views or lookups this year in that state
1:32.8	according to their data. And Shoheotani obviously was the big winner here. He had
1:38.9	the most popular player page of the year at baseball reference and by my count he
1:43.2	carried 25 states. So he was the most popular player looked up on baseball
1:49.0	reference in fully half of the states in the Union which is impressive but not
1:53.9	New York. So in Oregon he is the most popular in Washington. He is the most
2:00.5	popular in your whole region that you are from. He is the most popular the
2:04.7	entire West Coast essentially and also Arizona where you currently reside and he
2:11.2	is not the most popular player in New York. And now I'm looking around at my
2:16.0	fellow New Yorkers and questioning everything and also questioning myself. Did I
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