Effectively Wild Episode 457: Do the Astros Have a Perception Problem?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2014
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss whether the Astros’ analytical approach has become (or could become) a PR problem.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 4 57 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from |
| 2:55.4 | Steve Tollison on the other hand very very interesting |
| 3:00.5 | Home of today I'm gonna look up his his current OPS, but |
| 3:05.7 | Feels like pretty much |
| 3:09.1 | Going to win me the minor league for Agent draft seems that way all by himself |
| 3:14.9 | Because he's |
| 3:16.4 | Let's see he is now he is now hitting |
| 3:20.5 | 302 388 558 as an emergency middle infielder |
| 3:27.8 | So I imagine then he's got 225 played appearances in him this year |
| 3:32.2 | I don't see your team getting that many and he's also got the pitching |
| 3:36.3 | stats that he had it. Yeah, really only really only takes one one guy |
| 3:41.1 | Strike it rich with one unlikely minor league for Agent to win that draft in this game. Yeah, that's all it takes |
| 3:48.8 | All right anything else you want to update or should we move on? |
| 3:52.0 | Yes, we can give the obligatory Ryan Webb update Ryan Webb finished a game over the long weekend |
| 3:59.0 | He did not get a save so he is now at 82 career games finished without a save |
| 4:05.2 | Which brings him to one behind the idle Matt albers and Ryan Webb got a games finished |
| 4:11.8 | Down nine nothing in the ninth the the lowest leverage of low leverage games should have been a position player in there |
| 4:19.2 | But it was Ryan Webb instead |
| 4:21.2 | I just can't get any respect |
| 4:23.2 | Yeah, I guess are we gonna have to now update the |
| 4:27.3 | the position player pitching pace every couple days |
| 4:32.3 | I'll mention it when when there is one there wasn't one but when there's not one is |
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