Effectively Wild Episode 1794: Play Up and Pay Up
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley continue their “Measuring the Unmeasurable” series about studying difficult-to-quantify aspects of the sport by talking to Patrick Brennan about his studies on assessing player development at the major and minor league levels, the challenges of evaluating player development, the data he wishes he had, the most and least successful player development organizations, his work as the director of analytics for the Kansas State baseball team, analyzing pitch sequencing, and his baseball ambitions. Then (34:32) they bring on Pitcher List’s Grant Washburn to discuss his metric for measuring unpurchased wins, Wins Below Replacement Ownership, the importance of having a good owner, the data he couldn’t include, the owners who spend the least on player payroll relative to revenue, why having a high payroll isn’t always enough, saying “the MLB,” and more.
Audio intro: Billy Joel, “A Minor Variation”
Audio interstitial: The Legal Matters, “Minor Key”
Audio outro: Aerosmith, “Eat the Rich”
Link to Patrick’s study on MiLB player dev
Link to Patrick’s study on MLB player dev
Link to first Driveline study on player dev value
Link to second Driveline study on player dev value
Link to article on Patrick’s work with Kansas State
Link to Patrick’s study on pitch sequencing
Link to Ben on college player development
Link to Grant’s WBRO study
Link to Grant’s WBRO data
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| 0:00.0 | And it's a strange thing, |
| 0:05.0 | Cause now we don't really matter, |
| 0:10.0 | More of the same thing, |
| 0:13.0 | Don't even hide it's all a part of the pattern, |
| 0:18.0 | But still ain't all this just a small consolation, |
| 0:23.0 | I just depended as a monoveration. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1794, |
| 0:32.0 | Effectively wild, a baseball podcast from Bandgrafs, |
| 0:35.0 | Presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:38.0 | And that member of the ringer joined today in a rally of |
| 0:41.0 | Okay, that's a little megged. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello. |
| 0:43.0 | So just like last time we are devoting today's episode |
| 0:45.0 | To talking about measuring the unmeasurable, |
| 0:47.0 | Talking to some authors of recent research |
| 0:50.0 | About difficult to quantify aspects of baseball |
| 0:53.0 | That's caught our eye, so later on in this episode |
| 0:56.0 | We'll be talking to Grant Washburn of Pitcher List |
| 0:59.0 | About quantifying owner performance and ownership groups. |
| 1:02.0 | But first we want to talk a little bit about player development |
| 1:06.0 | With Patrick Brennan. |
| 1:08.0 | Patrick has written for various sites over the years, |
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