Effectively Wild Episode 679: The Barry Bonds Collusion Case

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Ben and Sam banter about Bryce Harper, then talk about what Barry Bonds could have contributed to or cost a baseball team in 2008.

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0:00.0	and here's another hit baby bones.
0:04.0	We outta here baby.
0:06.8	Good morning and welcome to episode six, seven, nine,
0:10.3	effectively wild daily podcast from baseball perspectives
0:14.7	brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com.
0:18.7	I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland,
0:21.4	hi Ben, how are you?
0:22.6	All right.
0:23.5	I used Play Index today for something simple,
0:26.4	but I used it.
0:27.3	I used it to find out that currently,
0:30.2	Rice Harper is on pace to have more walks
0:35.1	than any player since Barry Bonds
0:38.1	and more home runs than any player since Barry Bonds.
0:43.3	So that's pretty cool.
0:44.6	Yeah, it is.
0:46.3	Do you think he'll do either of those things?
0:48.2	No.
0:50.0	Neither do I.
0:51.2	I don't know neither.
0:52.4	But the either one is, you know, I mean,
0:55.2	so 58 homers, nobody's hitting more than 58 homers
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