Effectively Wild Episode 718: Early Awards and Excessive Celebrations

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Ben and Sam banter about Joc Pederson and answer emails about Madison Bumgarner, on-field celebrations, the Triple Crown, holding runners, and more.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 718 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from
0:25.6	Baseball Prospectus presented by the Plane Decks at BaseballReference.com. I'm Ben Limberg of
0:31.0	Grandland joined by Sam Miller at Baseball Prospectus. Hello. Howdy. How are you? The same.
0:38.2	Okay, so we're going to do an email show today. We've had a bit of an irregular schedule lately. There's
0:45.0	one week left in Stompers season and it's unclear how that will affect the podcast because we'll be
0:51.8	busy book writing after that but at least we'll be home. Not at Baseball Games every day which will
0:57.1	maybe make our recording more predictable. So thanks for bearing with us this long. Anything you'd
1:03.4	like to discuss? No, thank you. Okay, so we're going to get to emails in a second. I will just bring
1:09.9	up the Jack Peterson story. Do you see the Jack Peterson story? He was benched despite having a 413
1:18.0	on base percentage in August. He's not hitting. He's had 41 at bats. He's struck out in 17 of them
1:28.6	and he's had hits in two of them but he's walked 20 times. So he has a 122 413 293 line in August.
1:40.3	Which translates to an above average offensive number just using WRC plus from Vangress where 100
1:50.7	is the average. Jack Peterson has a 117 WRC plus in August because of all those walks and all that
1:57.6	on base percentage. And yet he has not been hitting the ball. He clearly has not lost his
2:05.2	plate discipline entirely but he's not looking as good as he did for most of the season. So he has been
2:11.2	benched and replaced by Kike Hernandez. He has hit very well all season. 327 389 551. Obviously not the
2:22.3	prospect or player that Jack Peterson is but he's been pretty consistently good all year and he's
2:28.3	been playing second base. Filling in for how he Kendrick and with Kendrick coming back and chase
2:33.9	up Lee coming to LA. Mattingly prefers to have his bat rather than Jack Peterson. So we've seen
2:42.0	a player who was probably the rookie of the year favorite one of the best players in baseball in
2:48.3	the first half get benched despite that month where he has a 413 on base percentage. I don't know
2:55.3	that I would make this move. Yeah. I mean you I don't know that you would make this move even if
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