Effectively Wild Episode 699: Radio Producers, Cycles, and Dave Stewart Don’t Make Sense
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about baseball crimes, All-Star voting, and Diamondbacks GM Dave Stewart, then answer listener emails about perfect games, discuss stats about cycles, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Meaningless, like when two fireflies florets |
| 0:05.0 | Just like everything I guess |
| 0:08.0 | Bless us, yes, it was utterly meaningless |
| 0:14.0 | Even worse, a little glimpse of nothingness |
| 0:20.0 | Sucking me from the rest of this mess |
| 0:23.0 | Yes, yes, yes, it was thoroughly meaningless |
| 0:26.0 | Good morning |
| 0:28.0 | Just, yeah, just yes, yes, embrace |
| 0:32.0 | So, hey Ben, how are you? |
| 0:35.0 | It's 99 of effectively wild, easily podcasted from baseball perspective |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Sam Miller, along with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland |
| 0:43.0 | Hey Ben, I brought to you by the play index at baseball reference, which we'll get into |
| 0:47.0 | Hey real quick, and then we can do less quick |
| 0:50.0 | But I noticed that there's a debate about left-handed catchers going on on the Facebook page |
| 0:55.0 | And somebody says, at youth levels, there's often a single catcher's mitt and numerous fielding gloves |
| 1:00.0 | The catcher's mitt, if it's to be one shared by a team for long term use, would typically be right-handed |
| 1:05.0 | So not many left-handed tips play catcher |
| 1:08.0 | My understanding is that actually little league mandates, little league the body mandates that every team |
| 1:13.0 | Or maybe it's just some little leagues |
| 1:15.0 | I know that the local little league in my area mandates that every team have a left-handed catcher's glove |
| 1:20.0 | So I think that this comment is misinformed, or I mean it's a reasonable |
| 1:25.0 | Subposition that he makes, but I think it's not true |
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