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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 28: Austin Jackson and Debating Defense/What Does the Mariners’ Winning Streak Mean?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2012

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss Austin Jackson’s excellent catch, whether he’s the best defensive center fielder in baseball, and whether it’s even possible to decide one way or another, then dissect Seattle’s eight-game winning streak to see if it’s the start of something good or a fluke that will soon be forgotten.

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0:00.0

Good evening and good morning to everybody and welcome to episode 28 of Effectively Wild.

0:15.4

The daily podcast of baseball prospectus, we are on the cusp of a weekend which I know

0:22.0

means all of our listeners have one thing on their mind.

0:25.8

Ben Lindbergh will you once again be lounging topless beside a pool in upstate New York

0:29.7

this weekend?

0:30.7

I will not.

0:31.7

I will be in Manhattan.

0:32.7

Not next to a pool this weekend.

0:35.5

Well now that we have that question answered, let's go on to baseball.

0:39.7

Do you have a topic you'd like to talk about today?

0:42.6

I do.

0:43.6

Before we get to that, maybe I don't know if it's really an omission, not really since

0:49.2

we did mention him very briefly, but I got a tweet asking for us to talk a little bit

0:55.5

more about Pat Corbin, who was also involved in the Dan Heron, Joe Sanders, Tyler Skaggs

1:01.3

trade we discussed yesterday.

1:03.9

Do you want to very quickly cover why you're not a big fan of Pat Corbin?

1:08.9

Oh, well, Corbin was drafted in the same draft class as Skaggs, I believe, but is a much

1:19.2

more low upside guy.

1:21.1

He is also left-handed.

1:22.3

He, at the time of the trade, had very good numbers in A ball, but was widely seen as a kind

1:28.4

of pitchability guy who maybe would struggle as he moved up.

1:32.5

He has not struggled as he has moved up and he is now in the majors and has actually had

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