Effectively Wild Episode 279: You Have Questions, and We Have Answers to Some of Them

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Ben and Sam answer listener emails about PED placebos, deceptively bad seasons, advanced stats in fantasy baseball, and more.

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0:00.0	I got miles and miles of the e-mail style, miles and miles of the e-mail style.
0:09.6	Good morning and welcome to episode 279 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseballperspector.com.
0:16.1	I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, say Wednesday e-mail show.
0:20.5	Ben, how are you doing?
0:21.5	Very well.
0:22.5	Great.
0:23.5	That's the family.
0:26.5	I don't know.
0:28.5	I should check in on them.
0:30.5	All right.
0:31.5	Who's reading today?
0:32.5	I've got everything in a document.
0:34.5	So I'll do it.
0:35.5	All right.
0:36.5	Good.
0:37.5	Go for it.
0:38.5	All right.
0:39.5	I guess we can start with the two that we both did, at least minimal amounts of research for the first one comes from Patrick, who says in August,
0:47.5	Pete Cosma had seven walks and only four total bases over 55 played appearances.
0:53.5	How rare is such a feat, having more walks than total bases in a month or a half or a season.
0:59.5	This has to be somewhat common in truly awful players.
1:02.5	If not also your three true outcomes players, Cosma only has two outcomes.
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