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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 473: Never Stop Asking Questions

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener email questions about players who take pitches, catcher defense, spotting terrible teams a run, tool grades, and more.

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I wish I had a lot of answers.

0:04.0

That's the way it should be.

0:07.0

All these questions, interacted with me.

0:15.0

Just can't find a time to ride my mind away once.

0:20.0

Good morning.

0:21.0

Welcome to episode 473 of Effectively Wild,

0:25.0

the Daily Podcasts from baseballperspectus,

0:28.0

presented by the baseballreference.com Play Index.

0:31.0

I am Ben Lindbergh.

0:33.0

Join us always by Sam Miller.

0:35.0

Hello.

0:36.0

Hi.

0:37.0

Hi.

0:38.0

Let's hear your email show.

0:40.0

Yeah.

0:41.0

I issued a challenge last night for people to send better questions,

0:45.0

and they responded to that challenge with some excellent questions.

0:49.0

Anything to say before we begin?

0:53.0

No, but I guess thank you to everybody.

0:56.0

Yeah, sure.

0:57.0

I had a couple things just in response to our Tony Gwynn episode yesterday.

1:03.0

We briefly discussed whether his death would dissuade players from using tobacco, chewing tobacco.

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