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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 265: Answers to Your Burning Baseball Questions

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about baseball with clockwise bases, whether in-game managerial moves help or hurt, who pays players who get released, and more.

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What is that sound?

0:05.0

Did you turn the fan off?

0:07.0

We replaced crickets and birds with squeaky fans.

0:14.0

That one particular fan is squeaky.

0:17.0

That was a motorcycle.

0:25.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 265

0:29.0

of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus.

0:33.0

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller.

0:37.0

I believe in his kitchen today.

0:41.0

It's Wednesday so this is the listener email show.

0:44.0

We received quite a few emails and mostly Sam has picked out some for us to answer.

0:51.0

So we're going to do that now.

0:53.0

Before we start ahead one quick question that I meant to ask yesterday

0:58.0

because we were talking about the Tigers

1:01.0

and I had just watched the Hosea Glacias play about 12 times.

1:05.0

Where does that rank on your web gem scale?

1:12.0

We've disagreed before about the impressiveness of defensive plays.

1:18.0

I remember we argued about the Victor Martinez flip earlier this year

1:22.0

and whether that was an impressive play.

1:25.0

I think generally if there's a dividing line between us,

1:29.0

it's usually I'm less impressed by unusual throws.

1:34.0

I find humans have a great capacity to project objects in a given direction.

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