Effectively Wild Episode 627: Saving the Strike Zone, the NL Ascendant, and Other Emails

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Ben and Sam answer listener emails about an all-catcher lineup, league strength, robot umps, and more.

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0:00.0	But I don't know if I could still believe you're not.
0:05.0	So I just don't know.
0:08.0	No, I just don't know.
0:13.0	I don't know if I had it.
0:16.0	I don't know if I'm not.
0:19.0	I don't know if I can.
0:22.0	I don't know if I've got the time.
0:25.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 627.
0:29.0	Effectively wild, the daily podcast from baseball perspective
0:33.0	presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:37.0	I'm Ben Lindberg of Grantland joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective.
0:41.0	Hello.
0:42.0	Hello.
0:43.0	So we got further information about the Yankees pitching machine that we were talking about yesterday.
0:50.0	Before our Indians preview podcast, we discussed how embarrassing, how significant it was that Chris Young had struck out against a pin.
0:58.0	Yeah.
0:59.0	A pitching machine.
1:00.0	We were speculating about what this pitching machine was throwing.
1:03.0	And there was a profile of the Yankees pitching machine in the times today in Article by Billy Witt.
1:10.0	And this article says that the pitching machine, which is called the hack attack and retails for over $3,000,
1:21.0	had it was set to throw nothing but fastballs.
1:25.0	That's dismay.
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