Effectively Wild Episode 779: Meet Major League Hitters’ Newest Nightmare
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam talk to BP author Chris Mosch about the newest innovation in defensive positioning: the outfield shift.
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| 0:00.0 | I've got a play, I've got to listen to my toy today |
| 0:06.0 | I'm on a road away and I can feel the ground beneath my wheels |
| 0:11.0 | putting it back in my place |
| 0:16.0 | And never find a spot |
| 0:23.0 | And never to play something |
| 0:28.0 | We move again |
| 0:32.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 779 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast |
| 0:38.0 | from baseball perspectives, presented by the Plandex at baseballreference.com |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sam Miller, the baseball perspective of Sam |
| 0:48.0 | Today we have a guest who unlike our most recent guest, actually knew we were calling |
| 0:53.0 | He is baseball perspective writer Chris Moche, who does some of our favorite |
| 0:58.0 | and a little articles for the site |
| 1:00.0 | And he is talking to us in beautiful Hawaii |
| 1:03.0 | Tomorrow he is leaving for the winter meetings where he's going to do something a little like we talked to Andre Arshimbo |
| 1:10.0 | about earlier this week and look for jobs |
| 1:13.0 | And if you are someone who works for a baseball team, we think you should hire Chris |
| 1:16.0 | And we hope that you'll think the same after you hear him, hello Chris |
| 1:19.0 | Hey guys, thanks for having me |
| 1:21.0 | No problem, so we are not going to talk to you about the winter meetings |
| 1:24.0 | We'll probably get our fill of winter meetings talk next week |
| 1:28.0 | So we want to talk about a subject that is close to my heart and close to yours |
| 1:33.0 | And you've probably written about it as much as anyone, maybe more than anyone over the past year or two |
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