Effectively Wild Episode 741: All About Utley
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about TBS baseball broadcasts, then discuss the Chase Utley slide in Game 2 of the Dodgers-Mets NLDS.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 741 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from |
| 1:25.5 | The |
| 1:26.6 | situation and then we'll probably catch up with the rest of the ALDS in about I don't know 12 hours when we |
| 1:32.9 | re-record and release an episode again. But for now I think we'll we'll keep the parameters tight |
| 1:40.3 | around a single play before we do that. Is there anything that is so pressing that we have to |
| 1:46.3 | banter about it? TBS is pitch cracker. Oh, it's going on with that thing. It's the last night's good |
| 1:53.2 | wife of trackers. It's really, what's happening? It's like that even it's like third base or something |
| 2:01.0 | is like on the I don't even know it's not home plate. What is it? I mean really it is like somebody |
| 2:09.2 | is doing it by hand. Yeah, basic. Like it it's just it's really really bad like the an inch down |
| 2:18.2 | on the inch low looks like it's a foot low. Yeah, it feels to me like there's two issues with it. |
| 2:24.8 | One is that the inches off the plate are not to scale. So anything that's off the plate either |
| 2:32.2 | or way. It's like half a plate width off the plate. Like every yeah there's no there's nothing |
| 2:38.3 | just off the corner really. Right exactly. And so you have this feeling that either the pitches are |
| 2:43.5 | way wilder than they are or the calls are way more egregious than they are. And I think the |
| 2:48.0 | second thing and I haven't really looked at it systematically but my my feeling from having |
| 2:52.8 | launch it plenty is that the the zone is just too low too low too too low. And so like they're not |
| 3:03.6 | adjusting it it seems clear that they're not adjusting it for the batter for one thing. Yeah. |
| 3:09.2 | And but I mean that's probably I don't know that's probably common. But it feels like the |
| 3:15.5 | there's it's just it's just like I don't know particularly at the high side there's a lot of pitches |
| 3:21.1 | that are appearing high that look like they're at the belt to me. And so those are the big |
| 3:27.9 | issues but yeah it's weird it's very odd that you wouldn't be able to get this down because this |
| 3:33.3 | has been going on for years and it's a direct I mean it's the same like it's it's given to you. |
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