Effectively Wild Episode 2202: The Hierarchy of Versatility
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the appeal of deflected balls caught on the fly, the lack of variety in MLB.TV highlights, Aaron Judge’s bases-empty intentional walks, the Braves falling out of playoff position (for now), and the surprising team with a trio of young, above-average, qualified hitters. Then (40:44) they rank the types of baseball versatility and Stat Blast (56:18) about the decline of switch-hitting, Maury Wills and switch-hitter slumps, how often managers are fired following a loss, and whether intra-division trades are getting more common.
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| 0:00.0 | How do you calculate more? |
| 0:06.0 | Does it come from the heart? |
| 0:10.0 | Should we use defensive run saved or follow the OAA way? |
| 0:19.0 | Who's gone away in with their quips and opinions. |
| 0:27.0 | It's effectively wild. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2202 ofively Wild, a fangrass of baseball. |
| 0:34.0 | The number, the number trip me up and then I got fast it and I started congratulating myself. |
| 0:44.0 | There's a lot of twos. |
| 0:45.0 | So many, so many twos, Ben. |
| 0:49.0 | Should we try again or should we just, you know, it's brought to you by our Patreon supporters for whom we are so |
| 0:54.2 | grateful I am a growly fan graphs you are Ben Lindbergh of the ringer Ben how are you I'm |
| 1:00.7 | doing just fine I don't know how you're doing I I'm doing great. It's Friday. It's a Friday show. You know, we love a Friday show and we love Fridays really pro-Fry-Fry know what else I have realized? |
| 1:12.8 | I love a deflection on defense, a ball that is caught after hitting something, someone, |
| 1:20.0 | and then someone else catches it. |
| 1:22.5 | Did you see the play in the Rockies Mets game |
| 1:27.0 | on Thursday that involved a double play deflection? |
| 1:50.0 | And that's a rocket, that's an hour. deflection, a line drive back up the middle, through the box, Francisco and Door, |
| 1:57.0 | deflected a liner off of pitcher Peter Lambert's glove, and then it was caught by Rocky shortstop Ezekiel Tovar, |
| 2:06.4 | who threw to first to double off the runner, |
| 2:09.0 | who was on first. |
| 2:10.2 | I had to watch the replay a few times |
| 2:12.4 | to discern that this was, fact a deflection and it seemed like even one of the |
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