Effectively Wild Episode 448: Why Can’t We Have a Healthy Jose Fernandez?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2014
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss the Jose Fernandez injury and talk to Corey Dawkins and Doug Thorburn about the Tommy John rehab process and why pitchers keep getting hurt.
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| 0:00.0 | Ooh, ooh, baby, so sweet pleasure. I'm done for soil. |
| 0:07.2 | It's a giant way, with a pin of pin to get it on your line. |
| 0:13.0 | Baby, pleasure, ooh, baby, so close to pleasure. |
| 0:23.4 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:24.7 | Good morning and welcome to episode 448, |
| 0:27.3 | I look back to you while today we podcast |
| 0:29.2 | from baseball perspective, presented by the play index |
| 0:31.8 | at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. |
| 0:36.1 | Ben, last year's fastest average fastball |
| 0:40.9 | was thrown by Matt Harvey, who just had Tommy John |
| 0:44.7 | surgery last summer. |
| 0:46.1 | The third fastest fastball was thrown by Jose Fernandez, |
| 0:50.1 | who seems likely to have Tommy John surgery imminently. |
| 0:56.4 | And when we drafted our under 25 starting pictures last week, |
| 1:01.1 | you drafted a few guys, you drafted Danny Salazar, |
| 1:04.6 | whose fastball velocity was right in between those two |
| 1:08.0 | guys last year and has dropped scarily this year. |
| 1:11.8 | You dropped your Dono Ventura, who has the fastest average |
| 1:15.1 | fastball this year. |
| 1:16.6 | And Nathan Evaldi, who is second this year |
| 1:20.5 | and Garrett Cole, who is fourth this year, only Garrett Richards |
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