Effectively Wild Episode 519: The Crack of the Bat and Other Research

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Ben and Sam talk to Robert Arthur about the analytical significance of the crack of the bat and his other original sabermetric research.

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0:00.0	We were right.
0:05.0	The damn script.
0:07.0	How did you know that it could be a scene?
0:11.0	As I've been in this business two days long, that's why.
0:15.0	Not more than that, tell me.
0:18.0	It's the sound we hear.
0:21.0	It's like if it's all coming off the batter and exploding,
0:24.0	and it'll glow.
0:25.0	It's a pure sound.
0:27.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 519 of Effectively Wild,
0:34.0	the daily podcast from baseball perspective presented by the
0:38.0	baseballreference.com Playindex.
0:41.0	I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland.com, joined by Sam Miller of
0:44.0	baseball perspective.
0:46.0	Hi, Ben.
0:47.0	Hello.
0:48.0	Today we are going to be talking about an article that
0:51.0	baseball perspective is published on Wednesday, and it's
0:54.0	an article that made me miserable for a while.
0:57.0	It's about the analytical value of the crack of the bat.
1:01.0	And it's some very interesting and original research.
1:04.0	It made me miserable because I had once tried and failed to do
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