Effectively Wild Episode 81: The Angels, the Reds, and Two Conflicting Closer Philosophies

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2012

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss the Reds’ and Angels’ approaches to bullpen-building, how Cincinnati’s philosophy affects Aroldis Chapman’s future, and which way the wind is blowing where the closer role is concerned.

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0:00.0	Man, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
0:15.0	Good evening and welcome to Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from BaseballPerspectives.com.
0:22.0	It is Monday November 12th, this is episode 81.
0:27.0	I feel like I'm safe saying good evening because it is 9-12 for UR, correct?
0:32.0	Yes, that's right.
0:33.0	And so this is an evening episode.
0:37.0	Your topic is today.
0:41.0	So what is your topic?
0:43.0	I wanted to talk about the different approaches that a couple teams are taking
0:48.0	and saying they're taking with their closers.
0:53.0	You wanted to talk about a couple of approaches that teams are taking and saying
0:57.0	that they're taking with regards to their closers.
1:00.0	Okay.
1:02.0	This is unfortunate because that is not the kind of topic that I can seriously Google.
1:07.0	Okay, well you probably won't have to.
1:10.0	You can just say some things.
1:13.0	So I was just kind of combing through rumors as I generally do towards the end of the day
1:19.0	when I'm trying to think of a podcast topic and a couple recent ones stood out to me
1:25.0	because they were direct opposites really.
1:28.0	Two teams that are looking for a closer or at least looking for someone to be designated
1:35.0	as the person who gets saved most of the time kind of have different philosophies
1:42.0	about what they're going to do about that this winter.
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