Effectively Wild Episode 446: Dissecting the Surprise Teams
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2014
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss two teams that have significantly surpassed expectations so far: the Colorado Rockies and the Miami Marlins.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I was one really. |
| 0:02.6 | How long? |
| 0:04.8 | And this could go on. |
| 0:07.6 | On how? |
| 0:09.8 | Well, I thought I could never. |
| 0:14.4 | Peace of mind. |
| 0:15.4 | Good morning and welcome to episode 446 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcasts from Baseball Perspectus, |
| 0:22.6 | presented by the BaseballRefrents.com Playindex. |
| 0:25.8 | I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller. How are you? |
| 0:30.0 | Good. How are you? |
| 0:31.0 | Good. |
| 0:32.0 | Have you any bento? |
| 0:34.0 | I guess a quick one. |
| 0:36.0 | The, you know, this is going back to the Matt Albers save, save watch. |
| 0:43.0 | One of the four pictures who has a save for the Astros Raul Valdez was, I guess, released or, or DFA'd, I think released. |
| 0:56.0 | Anyway, so that just shows you how easy it is to get a save in Houston. He got this save like a week ago. |
| 1:04.0 | And it was not one of those like five innings and a blowout kind of saves. |
| 1:08.0 | This was like he came in with one out in the ninth of a close game. |
| 1:11.0 | So legit save. |
| 1:13.0 | So anyway, remains dangerous. |
| 1:15.0 | But so I just want to have a quick, quick little poll of the two of us. |
| 1:20.0 | It's a three, three question poll. |
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