Effectively Wild Episode 188: The Yankees and PECOTA/Earned Run Ratio/Least Likely MVP Candidates/When to Trust 2013 Stats

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2013

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about whether PECOTA underestimates the Yankees, how to improve ERA, Coco Crisp the MVP candidate, and in-season stats vs. projections.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 188 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from
0:14.4	Baseball Prospectus.
0:16.4	I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller, and we are here to answer your email
0:22.6	questions today.
0:24.3	We got some good email questions that we are going to answer.
0:29.0	You just said that.
0:30.0	Yeah.
0:31.0	I did.
0:32.0	Okay.
0:33.0	Do you want to start in any particular place?
0:36.4	Nope.
0:37.4	Start where you want to start.
0:38.4	Okay.
0:39.4	Then I'll start, I guess, with the Yankees question.
0:43.5	This is from Steve.
0:45.1	Steve says, I'm a Red Sucks fan, ex-pat living in Brooklyn.
0:49.4	Right now the Yankees seem to be holding their own, and then some despite an array of
0:52.9	injuries that one would expect to be crippling.
0:55.4	I can't remember a season when the New York Yankees did not outperform their Prokota
0:59.1	expected win total.
1:01.2	Where do the Yankees rank in terms of realized versus Prokota expected win since the inception
1:05.6	of Prokota?
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