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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 604: PECOTA’s Surprising Pitcher Projections

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Ben and Sam share their thoughts on some of PECOTA’s most surprising pitcher projections.

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0:00.0

Nobody who sees the statue they go know who I am.

0:04.0

A lot of kids of though, I want to even play.

0:08.0

I have grandkids.

0:11.0

And they don't know what I did.

0:14.0

They really don't. They never see it, they don't know.

0:18.0

Like where since I'm with them watching them, they get the Battle of Freedom Award.

0:23.0

Barack Obama gave it to me. He never seen me play.

0:28.0

So I talked to some people, I said, maybe I put a voice mail on the statue, you know, to say, who I am.

0:36.0

Hey, I'm Ernie Banks, I'm playing at this ballpark over here. This was happening and that was it.

0:41.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 604 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball perspective.

0:48.0

Brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindberg of Granton. Hi Ben.

0:54.0

Hi. How are you? All right. Just kill and time till the Royal Rumble.

0:59.0

So there's no better way to do it than by recording a baseball podcast.

1:04.0

So you are not a person who routinely tweets about wrestling.

1:11.0

Or about anything for that matter. That's true. But but not about wrestling. I didn't even know that you were.

1:16.0

I'm a casual enthusiast. I have a couple of my oldest closest friends are very, very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about wrestling.

1:28.0

So periodically they invite themselves over to my apartment for a major wrestling event. And I kind of enjoy watching them watch it as much as I enjoy watching it myself.

1:38.0

Is this because you have a better setup? Yes.

1:41.0

I kind of brought them together as two fans who did not know each other but knew me and were so into wrestling that I figured I would make an introduction.

1:53.0

Well, that's nice. All right. Do you have anything to talk about? Not really.

1:59.0

Okay. Me neither. All right. So I wanted to talk about Pakota and pictures. And we've done, I think we've done versions of this. This is a question that you and I have always.

2:11.0

We had. We are a wealth. I'll just explain. I wrote on Friday about the pictures whose projections have most changed since last year, which is to say not that they are projections are the most different from their performance last year, but their projections are the most different from what their projections were last year.

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