Effectively Wild Episode 298: The Creative Questions Our Listeners Ask
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2013
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Ben and Sam answer listener emails about unusual outfield alignments, high schoolers versus big leaguers, modern starters used like Cy Young, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 298 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from |
| 0:12.9 | baseball prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller. Hello, sir. Hi. Hey Ben. |
| 0:20.5 | I was just wondering, how would you rate your internet speed on the standard 2080 scale? |
| 0:28.4 | I would grade it as a present three future four, because I'm hoping that people might go |
| 0:35.0 | to sleep soon in neighboring rooms and it'll get faster. |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah, probably this is the toughest time of night, right? Everybody's watching there. |
| 0:43.5 | Yes, I would think so. |
| 0:44.5 | They're in their internet videos. |
| 0:47.1 | But we will try to record anyway and see if it will work. So we are going to do the |
| 0:52.7 | email show. We weren't sure whether we were yesterday. We are. Some of you sent in some |
| 0:57.6 | questions today. So we can I ask you one quick question. Yeah, just a quick one. How |
| 1:03.1 | would you rate the emails that we got this week on the standard 2080 scale? I probably |
| 1:14.7 | it was it was a below average week. I think it doesn't have a confident is this. They |
| 1:21.1 | this hasn't they flashed up in scouting so they flashed plus. I would say all right. |
| 1:26.4 | So yeah, we should start with John, right? Because John, although I wish I wish we could |
| 1:33.2 | just forget that this ever happened, but but we should we should do it. We should let |
| 1:37.3 | you have your victory lap read the email. Well, there's three. There's multiple as everybody |
| 1:43.0 | knows, we've had multiple sort of contests throughout the course of this year drafts in |
| 1:48.5 | which Ben and I have put our baseball expertise up against each other and a friend of the |
| 1:52.9 | show John. John. Yeah, a friend of the show, John. He has been tabulating these for us |
| 2:03.7 | in a Google Doc. All the drafts he does wonderful work for us. And so we're going to update |
| 2:10.8 | since the season is over how we've done the most famous, I guess, draft we did. It was |
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