Upsters, that's infantry, they both mean a lot to mean.

That's why I love baseball.

Special dances, three series pitching and pure poetry.

That's why I love baseball.

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Effectively Wild

Baseball podcast

Hello and welcome to episode 2335

of Effectively Wild

Baseball podcast from FanGraft, presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs.

Hello, Meg.

Oh, hello.

I am pleased to report that Terik Scoobel is taking it a tad easier since I took him to task for shaking his fist in the face of the gods by throwing a pitch

that was clocked at 102.7 miles per hour, at least according to Brooks baseball. This was on May 25th,

and as you recall, when we talked about that, I said that he had entered the de Grom zone,

which was when a pitcher is so good that I start worrying about him.

Right.

Specifically when he's so good and he throws so hard that I start thinking, no human can keep this up without breaking. And that particular

pitch when he threw that 102.6 or 0.7, depending on the source mile per hour fastball, to

Gabriel Arias, and this was the last pitch in that complete game shutout he threw against the Guardians.

And that, to me, just seemed like the height of hubris to throw that particular pitch that hard.

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