Effectively Wild Episode 49: Another Attempt to Explain Why You Don’t Need an Ace in October/The New Old Ichiro/The Steve Johnson Story

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2012

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam revisit their discussion from last week on aces in October, talk about the new old Ichiro, and tell you more than you need to know about Orioles starter Steve Johnson.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from Baseball Perspectus.
0:10.0	This is episode 49, and we are recording it a bit early.
0:15.8	As we recorded, the Orioles are playing the second game of their double header, and Yankees
0:21.3	are leading their game, and the A's are leading their game, and by the time we record this,
0:25.9	you will not care about any of those status updates.
0:29.7	I should say, by the time we publish this, Ben Lindbergh is in New York, Ben Lindbergh,
0:34.7	how are you?
0:35.7	Great.
0:36.7	Thank you.
0:37.7	You're welcome.
0:38.7	Do you have a topic about Baseball?
0:41.7	Yeah, before I get to my topic, though, I just wanted to revisit an old topic, not that
0:49.4	old, our topic from, I think, Friday, which was when we talked about that article I wrote
0:55.7	about A's and teams with A's is not really being much better in the playoffs.
1:03.1	I wasn't really satisfied with my explanation for why it was the case.
1:08.7	We talked a bit about why it's the case, and I don't know that we really came to an explanation,
1:13.4	but I was on XM on Sunday night, and they wanted to talk about that, so I figured I should
1:21.0	prepare a better explanation for the national show, as opposed to our humble little podcast.
1:28.0	Which is, by the way, just as national?
1:31.0	Yes.
1:32.0	International, even.
1:33.0	It is.
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