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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 544: Cole, Altuve, and Other Season-Ending Excitement

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss the Pirates’ decision to start Gerrit Cole, the Astros’ decision to sit (and then start) Jose Altuve, and other news from the weekend.

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Well you and I, can love stand up and in blood's light we might have made it, yes and

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we might have made it, yes.

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Good morning and welcome to episode 544,

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an effectively wilded, the daily podcast from baseball perspectives,

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presented by the Playindex at baseballreference.com.

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I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, Ben, how are you?

0:37.0

Very well, thank you.

0:39.0

Do you want to hear a quick Playindex story?

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Of course, always.

0:44.0

So a friend of mine named Ryan Coltonbach, who is on the Twitter,

0:51.0

he gave me a sort of a push in the direction of a potential fun fact and I looked it up and it was fun.

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And so then I started to, I thought I'd talk about it here and then I thought I'll write it up as non-filtered.

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And then I just kept writing and now it's a full post.

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So it'll be up but I'll give you the fun fact here, which is this.

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There are 49 major leagueers who this year would have been the Padres Triple Crown winner.

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Oh, man.

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Oh, that's sad.

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And of course the Padres actual, the leaders of the actual, of the Triple Crown stats are actually three different people.

1:32.0

So they don't even have, it's not, I mean it would be bad enough if they, if the best hiter on their team could only manage to hit 263.

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18 with 15 homeers and 51 RBI's.

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But in fact, the best hiter on their team couldn't manage to do that.

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The best hiter on their team could manage to only do one third of that.

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