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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 40: The Phillies’ Return to 500/A Modest Bullpen Proposal

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2012

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss whether the Phillies’ recent run of success should affect our expectations for the team in 2013, then talk about a potential scheme to get drafted pitchers into big-league bullpens quickly.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 40 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

0:12.2

perspective daily podcast. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh in Long Beach

0:17.5

in the Honda Fit with the Door Open. It is Sam Miller. Sam, you are in the

0:22.8

discussion. You have to be in the discussion. That's good. That was a good

0:33.1

one. Good opening, good intro. Thank you. As Craig Calcutta pointed out

0:38.0

yesterday, it is in the discussion season when people discuss who is in the

0:43.2

discussion for various awards. How do you feel about in the discussion as a

0:48.2

concept? Well, in the discussion is probably a in-exact way of describing what

0:56.5

people want to say. Kevin Goldstein always used to bat back against people who

1:03.2

would say, why isn't so? In the discussion for MVP by saying because he's not

1:07.3

the MVP and he might be deserving of fourth, but if he's not the MVP, then it's

1:14.6

stupid to talk about it. That was Craig's point as well, yeah. Yet I also don't

1:21.1

mind pointing out that people have had better years than maybe other people

1:24.7

have given them credit for. It's just that we have a very limited framework with

1:28.6

which most writers like to present their ideas. All right, well, we're both in

1:33.9

the discussion for now. What are we discussing tonight? I'm going to talk about

1:39.3

the Phillies. I'm going to talk about a stupid idea I have. Okay. Is it a good

1:48.4

stupid idea? Probably not. All right. Well, let's talk about the Phillies first

1:53.6

and we'll end on this stupid idea. So a couple of weeks ago we talked about the

1:59.5

Mariners who were kind of the hot team at the time. They had just won eight games

2:04.7

in a row and our response to that, I guess, was sort of a shrug of the shoulders

2:12.0

more or less. Since then, they are seven and nine and just generally Mariners E.

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