Effectively Wild Episode 228: Matt Harvey and Clubhouse Hazing/Albert Pujols at Present/Underrated Slash Line Stars

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2013

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss Matt Harvey’s response to hazing, Albert Pujols’ recent resurgence, and players we’re underrating because of the run environment.

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0:00.0	Oh stars, oh stars, oh stars, oh stars, oh stars!
0:11.4	Good morning and welcome to episode 228 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball
0:17.6	Perspectus. I am Benlund Berg, joined by Sam Miller. We spoke in one of our meta commentaries
0:26.6	on the podcast at some point recently about how we've spoken about so many topics that everything
0:33.2	reminds us of a topic. And I had one of those moments when I read the story about Matt Harvey and
0:40.9	John Roche. Did you read that story? No, it was, it was in a Jeff Passen column the other day.
0:49.0	I'll read it. It's Harvey bounded up and challenged, oh okay this is not, I shouldn't have
0:58.0	started there. Basically Roche tried to. This is Roche the 6 foot 11 relay member. So I never
1:06.2	pronounced that Roche. And I always would have pronounced it Roche. And yet I'm looking at
1:13.7	baseball reference and it seems to suggest it might be Roche. No way. Huh, yeah it does sort of
1:20.7	suggest that. Okay, I'm gonna just avoid saying his name anymore. So that tall really.
1:28.0	His middle name is no, his middle name actually incidentally is not any easier. Eric. Eric
1:33.1	with an H. Is it, so do you think it's Eric or Erich or Erich or Erich Erich Erich? Erich.
1:41.3	I think it's Eric and the H is silent, but then it's one of the. But he's got a C.H. He's got a
1:46.5	C.H. I mean, he's already established the C.H. as in his. Yeah, that's true. His family, his family
1:52.9	history is true. Okay, so he, he tried to haze Harvey in the Metz Clubhouse. This was last season
2:02.4	by throwing a bucket of ice water onto Harvey. And then Passen writes, Harvey bounded up and
2:09.0	challenged Roche, Roche, Roche to a fight right there, right then. He gave up seven inches,
2:16.0	about 75 pounds and a gallon or so a bad ink. It didn't matter that he was a rookie. Harvey
2:21.5	would not be a joke. He would not be a punchline in Roche's retelling. He would not let some
2:26.8	mediocre clown play him Roche back to way. And I wondered whether, whether you think this would
2:35.2	be interpreted differently if it were some other player. Is it that met Harvey as a top prospect
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