Effectively Wild Episode 436: How Playoff Chances Have Changed
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss which teams have seen their chances of making the playoffs change the most since Opening Day.
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| 0:00.0 | Change out, change out |
| 0:05.0 | I'm so but killed not there and I will be fine |
| 0:11.0 | Change out, change out |
| 0:18.0 | Real range of things to bring me down there |
| 0:26.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 436 of Effectively Wildly Daily podcast from baseball perspective |
| 0:33.0 | Presented by the baseballreference.com play index. I am Ben Lindbergh joined as always by Sam Miller |
| 0:39.0 | Hello. Yeah, I've been so how many I just I saw the link I saw the tease but I didn't click on it |
| 0:46.0 | How many home runs is Albert Poole is gonna hit? |
| 0:49.0 | I don't think I speculated about that at all |
| 0:53.0 | It was very clearly promised |
| 0:57.0 | It was sometimes when you write articles that are republished on other sites or appear on other sites |
| 1:05.0 | I find that the headlines or the Twitter teases are not always an accurate reflection of the content of the article |
| 1:13.0 | I have found that to be the case |
| 1:18.0 | So the tweet that I saw says so how many home runs will Albert Poole's hit? |
| 1:24.0 | Ben Lindbergh does more than just guess |
| 1:27.0 | Since you didn't do more than you didn't even do that can I at least ask for a guess |
| 1:32.0 | No, yeah my article which I wrote for BP a few days ago and was republished at Fox Sports |
| 1:37.0 | Was mostly about how I thought it was nice that Albert Poole's 500th home run came under the current circumstances |
| 1:46.0 | That he was leading the league in home runs when he when he got the 500th as opposed to just sort of limping to the finish line |
| 1:53.0 | Crawling across the finish line as it appeared that maybe would be the case |
| 1:58.0 | So that was sort of the point I didn't really talk about what would happen going forward so much |
| 2:05.0 | Except to say that you know it seems like he still has still has some some home runs left in him |
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