Effectively Wild Episode 240: Several of the Finest Listener Emails

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2013

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about the best name for a future baseball player, no-trade clauses, RBI and wins, and a starter with Mariano Rivera’s cutter. Cameo by a raccoon.

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0:00.0	there's a lot of questions we just don't know the answers to. Good morning and welcome to episode
0:04.9	240 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus. You know what I like about 240?
0:12.1	What? 240 is the line where a bad batting average becomes just a mediocre batting average or
0:18.2	or I guess we're a terrible batting average becomes just a bad batting average. Like a guy who's
0:23.0	hitting in the 230s is having a lousy year. Guy who's hitting in the 240s is like a decent
0:28.3	week away from hitting 265. Yeah. 240 is a big number. Another month and will be average.
0:36.9	Almost. Well, what I don't like about 240 is that I haven't slept since 239. So this is going
0:44.0	to be a challenge. But we'll get through it. This is this is listener email Wednesday. So you will
0:51.5	help us get through this with your questions. Wade Boggs had 240 hits once.
0:56.9	There's a big that was a that was a that's some black ink that I saw a lot in my life. I
1:03.7	probably saw that black ink about a thousand times. Does it reassure you that the Cardinals released
1:11.1	Ty Wagenton with with many millions remaining on his deal? It kind of makes me feel better
1:18.2	that they make mistakes. You know, what was the original deal? Two years, five million.
1:28.6	Signed this off season? Yep. Huh. No, it doesn't necessarily reassure me. Why would that reassure me?
1:38.8	Makes me feel a little bit a little bit better that they haven't completely solved baseball.
1:44.7	Uh-huh. That even the Cardinals can make some some costly missteps.
1:50.9	Right. Yeah, I guess. Okay. I'm not rooting against. I don't mind if I actually find it more
1:59.1	interesting when the Cardinals seem invincible. I felt I felt a little nerve. I would say that I
2:05.9	felt a little nervous in life ever since like last May when the Rangers quit being invincible.
2:12.0	It was nice to know that there was there was there was somebody out there who'd figured it out,
2:16.7	you know, because like my life is pretty good. I like my life. I generally think I make right
2:21.3	decisions, but you know, I'm still striving to get better. I'm still striving for this, you know,
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