Effectively Wild Episode 734: The Most Important Player on Every Postseason Team

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Ben and Sam banter about Clayton Kershaw, Jake Arrieta, and Jerry Dipoto, then pick the player each playoff team would be most screwed without.

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0:00.0	Yeah, I'm lost without you. It's all coming to your hand.
0:10.5	Yeah, I'm lost without you. All I do is look around.
0:20.5	Yeah, good luck. Good morning and welcome to episode 734,
0:25.3	Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball perspectives brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:33.6	I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of Grandland, Hi Ben. Hi. How are you?
0:39.1	Doing a little play indexing. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know about this. This is a fun fact or not. It's a fact.
0:46.0	Ivan Nova Yankees pitcher pitched in his 16th game of the season. Tonight, last night, if you're listening to the Sun Tuesday,
0:54.0	and he lost that game, and he now has 16 decisions in 16 games. So I was curious to see how often that happens.
1:04.0	What's the most games that a pitcher has pitched in and had a decision in all of them?
1:08.8	And it turns out that Ivan Nova is doing something we haven't seen in quite some time.
1:14.0	He has the most games in a season with a decision in every game since Gary Nolan had 16 in 1969.
1:23.6	So he's tied for the most since World War II. Cool. I think that we did a play index on this one time.
1:30.4	Oh. I think we are looking for most decisions in a season. So you didn't have to be perfect, but most decisions.
1:41.3	I think I did a little play indexing tonight as well. Oh yeah. Found a little fun fact. What's that?
1:47.6	TJ House. Uh huh. May made four starts this year. Okay. All in April. And in those four starts,
1:56.9	he allowed as many runs as Zach Granky allowed through July 25th. That's impressive. He allowed 19. By the way,
2:05.6	he allowed 19. Jake Arietta has allowed nine in the second half. Jake Arietta second half is unbelievable.
2:13.2	Yeah. I don't really recall a pitcher being this good. I mean, there hasn't, hasn't been one.
2:19.5	It's not that I don't recall. I've seen a ton of stats about how, you know, he has the lowest
2:26.1	second half ERA of any starter who's made at least 10 starts. And he has the best 10 start stretch
2:32.4	of anyone since Bob Gibson. And it's just crazy. There's like a new ESPN stats and info packet on
2:39.2	Jake Arietta every day with some crazy new stat about how good he's been. I actually think that
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