Effectively Wild Episode 443: Looking at Lineup Protection
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about hustle and drug suspensions, then talk about how Miguel Cabrera, Mike Trout, and Giancarlo Stanton have been pitched this season.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 443 of Effectively What the Daily Podcasts from |
| 0:21.2 | Baseball Prospect is presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, Ben Hower you've excited to see what you've brought |
| 0:31.5 | for us to discuss today? |
| 0:33.0 | I have a couple of quick things at the top if we can. |
| 0:40.4 | Let's see, did you see that we have a new entry in the hustle test or whatever with |
| 0:53.8 | Troy Tuluwitsky? |
| 0:56.5 | So Troy Tuluwitsky and Grandfors B identified this for us. |
| 1:01.3 | Troy Tuluwitsky decided that he wasn't going to get in a rundown. |
| 1:07.4 | He got caught in between first and second and just decided to stand there and let the guy |
| 1:12.5 | tag him. |
| 1:14.4 | It was pretty egregious if you're into identifying lack of hustle. |
| 1:23.9 | He just stood there tauntingly, almost refusing to move. |
| 1:29.8 | Defiant. |
| 1:30.8 | Yeah, defiant. |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah, he conceded, gave up. |
| 1:33.6 | You might say he quit. |
| 1:34.7 | You might say he quit on the game. |
| 1:36.9 | Quit on all of us. |
| 1:37.9 | I'm sure someone will. |
| 1:39.7 | And so this seemed getting into a rundown doesn't particularly seem like hustle to me. |
| 1:48.3 | It seemed like this is probably something that we can expect baseball players to do to |
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