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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 606: The Baseball-to-Cricket Conversion

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk to international baseball and cricket coach Julien Fountain about his efforts to turn marginalized minor leaguers into well-compensated cricketers.

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But that's another story, that won't be coming round.

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I'll call nine nines, cause that's no big deal.

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I'll call nine nines, that will move me in it.

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But that's another story, what the fiddling is.

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Good morning and welcome to episode 606 of Effectively Wild,

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the Daily Podcast from baseball perspectives

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centred by the play index at baseballreference.com.

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I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland,

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joined as always by San Miller of baseball perspectives.

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And today we're talking to a guest a couple of weeks ago,

0:40.0

we spoke to Garrett Brocius, former minor league pitcher

0:43.0

who is leading a class action lawsuit trying to get minor leagueers higher pay.

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And the person we're talking to today sort of also has a solution

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to help minor leagueers make more money.

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But it involves not baseball, but cricket.

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He is Julian Fountain, he's an international baseball and cricket coach,

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a former Olympic baseball player.

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And he has started a program called Switch Hit 20 that is dedicated to

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turning baseball players into cricketers.

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And we're going to talk to him a bit about that today.

1:18.0

Hey Julian.

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Hi, thanks for having me on the show.

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