Effectively Wild Episode 55: Shrinking Safeco/The Unpredictability of Japanese Players

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2012

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss the Mariners’ decision to bring in (and lower) Safeco Field’s fences, then talk about what the seasons of Tsuyoshi Nishioka and Norichika Aoki say about the difficulty of projecting the performance of Japanese imports.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Which of us is starting today?
0:12.0	It's your turn.
0:15.0	Are you sure? I think it's yours.
0:18.0	I think I closed it yesterday.
0:21.0	Anyway, what number are we on?
0:24.0	We're on 55.
0:26.0	Welcome to episode 55 of...
0:32.0	Effectively wild, is the name of the show.
0:35.0	The daily podcast from baseball perspective.
0:37.0	I'm Sam Miller. I'm with Ben Lindbergh in New York. New York.
0:40.0	Ben, how are you doing?
0:41.0	I'm doing pretty well.
0:43.0	Great.
0:44.0	I feel like considering how this has gone, we should maybe just watch the A's game
0:48.0	or something, and people listen to us do that.
0:51.0	I was literally watching the A's game.
0:53.0	It's part of the reason that this happened.
0:56.0	Interrupted us.
0:57.0	Do you have any announcements? I have one.
0:59.0	Announcements? No, I don't think so.
1:02.0	I got a note from an employee of the Texas Rangers who told me that they have had
1:09.0	crickets that just shorted out two of their PCs in the ballpark.
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