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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2023: What’s Past Blast is Prologue

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh addresses an interview upgrade on the preceding episode, chats with FanGraphs’ Dan Szymborski about Luis Arraez’s chances of batting .400, Stat Blasts (22:36) about extremes in team winning and losing streaks, welcomes in David Lewis (28:00) for the final Past Blast, and talks to prolific science fiction (and baseball science fiction) author Rick […]

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A baseball podcast, analytics and stats, we're band and meg, from fame graphs, effective

0:16.0

Like and subscribe and click, Thank you, R

0:22.9

E

0:23.4

Law

0:29.7

Hello, and welcome to Episode 23 of Effectively Wild, A Baseball podcast from

0:37.8

Vandis, the stream's girl and meme makers who I have such an understanding of what

0:44.4

to grab bag of an episode for you, but I think it'll be a fun one.

0:47.7

First things first, on our last episode, episode 2022, we had some sound quality issues in

0:52.8

the first segment, my conversation with Russell Carlton of baseball perspectives about the

0:57.1

reds and his new book, The New Ball Game.

0:59.6

Russell's sound was muffled, tough to make out at points, apologies for that.

1:03.5

However, after the initial posting of the episode, we did re-edit and re-upload a new version

1:08.2

that is much easier on the ears.

1:10.0

I informed our Patreon supporters and put notices on Twitter and Reddit and in the discord

1:15.0

group and in the Facebook group, but I wanted to make sure everyone was aware, and so I'm

1:18.7

mentioning it here.

1:19.6

So if you did download that one immediately, but you haven't gotten to it yet, or you

1:22.9

didn't make it through that segment, please do delete and re-download the episode.

1:26.9

I'm pretty sure a more garbled version of an interview won't make it a collector's item.

1:30.8

In the current version, Russell is much more intelligible, which is good, because you wouldn't

1:34.2

want to miss a word that Russell Carlton says.

1:36.2

Here's the plan for today.

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