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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 781: Are Teams Going Overboard in the Bullpen?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about Hall of Fame voting and David Price, then talk about the recent trend toward teams acquiring multiple elite late-inning relievers.

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How could I move the crowd?

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First of all, ain't no mistakes allowed

0:05.0

Here's the instructions, put it together, it's simple ain't it?

0:09.0

But quite clever, some of you were trying to write rhymes for yen

0:13.0

But we God is, it retakes my ends

0:16.0

Is this the best that you can make?

0:18.0

Because if not, you got more I'll wait

0:21.0

But don't make me make too long, cause I'ma move on the dance floor

0:25.0

When they put something smooth on, so turn up the pace

0:28.0

And then when the sound, cause I like to move the crowd

0:31.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 7, lady 1

0:34.0

Effectively wild, the daily podcast from baseball perspectives

0:38.0

Got you by the plane decks

0:40.0

at baseballreference.com I'm Sam Miller, along with Thinland Mert of 538

0:45.0

Hey Ben, hi

0:46.0

I used the plane decks yesterday for an article that I wrote at Fox Sports on

0:52.0

Hall of Fame Voter Clusters, where what you can basically predict about a guy's or

1:00.0

Gals Ballet if you know for instance that he or she voted for Lee Smith

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or that he or she voted for Jeff Bagwell and so on

1:09.0

And baseballreference was very helpful in that

1:12.0

That's interesting, what did you find?

1:15.0

Oh, you'll have to read it, Ben

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