Effectively Wild Episode 510: Playoff Pitching and the Pace of Play

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Ben, Russell Carleton, and Michael Baumann discuss whether winning in the playoffs is any different from winning in August, then talk about ways to shorten games.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 510 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcasts from
0:22.5	Baseball Prospectus, presented by the baseballreference.com Play Index.
0:27.0	I am Ben Lindbergh, a writer for Grantland.com.
0:30.3	Sam, my usual partner, you know him as Sam Miller, is at the area code games today and
0:39.2	his hotel internet was not up to the task of podcasting.
0:43.9	So therefore I have replaced him with two other people because it takes two people to fill
0:49.6	his shoes.
0:50.6	One, you know well, Russell Carlton from Baseball Prospectus.
0:53.8	Hello, Russell.
0:54.8	Hi, I get the left shoe.
0:57.0	And the other podcast partner today is Michael Bauman, who is one of my colleagues at Grantland
1:02.9	and also a writer for Crashburn Alley and a regular listener whom we have mentioned on the
1:08.6	show many times.
1:09.6	Hello, Michael.
1:10.6	Hi, Ben, first time long time.
1:13.5	So I apologize to everyone if the audio quality is not up to our usual standards.
1:18.9	We should be back to normal on Monday.
1:22.2	But for now we are going to toss around a couple topics.
1:28.1	Well first of all, was anyone impressed by Javier Baez?
1:31.1	Who's that?
1:32.1	I haven't heard anything about him.
1:33.8	What's he do?
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