Effectively Wild Episode 2021: Always Be Closing

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani’s latest exploits and career-best WAR pace, the Angels’ playoff hopes, Corbin Carroll’s physique, and Mickey Moniak’s fluky-but-fun hot streak, then (20:55) answer listener emails about how big a scandal it would be if Ohtani turned out to be two twins, when managers would choose to take […]

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0:00.0	If baseball were different, how different would it be?
0:05.0	And if this thought haunted dreams will stick around and see what
0:10.0	Ben and Meg have to say philosophically
0:15.0	And penantically, it's effectively wild
0:23.0	Effectively wild!
0:27.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2021 of Effectively Wild!
0:30.0	A fan-graft space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters
0:33.0	I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-grafts and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumber of the Ringer.
0:36.0	Ben, how are you?
0:38.0	Doing pretty well, but not doing nearly as well as Shohe O'Tani.
0:41.0	I try not to start every episode by talking about Shohe.
0:44.0	I really do. I try. He doesn't make it easy.
0:47.0	I mean, do you remember on episode 2014
0:50.0	I mentioned a mechanical adjustment that O'Tani had made
0:55.0	Sam Blum tweeted that O'Tani said when he goes through slumps
1:00.0	he often notices various mechanical flaws causing the issues.
1:03.0	His recent slump, he said, had to do with the height of where he was gripping the bat
1:07.0	which sounded sort of surprising to me that he might have gripped the bat
1:12.0	at the wrong height, at a sub-automal height.
1:15.0	Yes.
1:16.0	How could it be to rip the bat at the height where you usually grip it anyway?
1:20.0	He changed that subtle thing.
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