Effectively Wild Episode 432: The Weekend of Unwritten Rules
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Dan discuss the weekend’s news and transactions, including a trio of unwritten rules violations.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I need it to see a red invitation place. |
| 0:09.0 | Yeah, I need it to see a red invitation. |
| 0:20.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 432 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:25.0 | Daily Podcasts from Baseball Perspectives, presented by the baseballreference.com play index. |
| 0:30.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh, similar still on vacation back this week, but not yet. |
| 0:36.0 | So I am joined as I was last week by Dan Brooks of BrooksBaseball.net and baseball |
| 0:42.0 | Perspectives. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, Dan. |
| 0:44.0 | You think, oh god, I just called you Sam. |
| 0:46.0 | What is wrong with me? |
| 0:47.0 | Hey, Ben, what's going on? |
| 0:48.0 | Good to see you. |
| 0:49.0 | Good job. |
| 0:53.0 | By the way, if anyone missed Friday's episode because it wasn't up in time for your commute, |
| 0:58.0 | like the podcast normally is, you should check that out. |
| 1:01.0 | It was a fun one and an educational one, I think for me at least. |
| 1:05.0 | I talked about the rising strikeout rate in baseball with a bunch of people more guest |
| 1:10.0 | than we've ever had on the show at one time. |
| 1:12.0 | Very Pavletus and Rob Nyer and Brian Bannister and Alan Nathan. |
| 1:17.0 | We discussed and debated why strikeouts are up so much and what should be done about it. |
| 1:23.0 | So that was fun. |
| 1:24.0 | Check it out if you haven't. |
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