Effectively Wild Episode 243: No-Hitters, Tim Lincecum, and Pitch Counts/Joe Blanton and ERA Estimators

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss whether we should care about pitch counts in no-hitters, then talk about the gap between Joe Blanton’s actual and estimated ERA.

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0:00.0	They call it Stormy Monday
0:05.0	But choose this just as bad
0:16.0	They call it Stormy Monday
0:25.0	And choose this just as bad
0:36.0	Good morning and welcome to the 243 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball
0:42.1	Perspectives.
0:43.1	I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller.
0:47.0	Hi Ben.
0:48.0	Hello.
0:49.0	How is your weekend?
0:50.0	Oh yeah.
0:51.0	Good.
0:52.0	How was your weekend?
0:54.0	The Fan Fest stuff was going on and I was doing some of that and then I was at the
0:58.0	Futures game yesterday and there was a BP event after the Futures game so it was a busy weekend.
1:04.0	You went to actual events?
1:06.0	Yes.
1:07.0	I did.
1:08.0	And it's nice to go to the Futures game as a person who doesn't know much about prospects
1:14.0	just because you can't be completely wrong when you think that someone looks good
1:20.0	because everyone there is a prospect.
1:22.0	So you can't have that feeling when you go to some other minor league game and you become
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