Effectively Wild Episode 868: Jake Arrieta is Reaganing

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Ben and Sam banter about this spring’s Tommy John toll, tanking, Barry Bonds, closer erosion, and a replay wrinkle, then discuss the dominance of Cubs starter Jake Arrieta.

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0:00.0	Fleming, you may be witnessing history here.
0:02.7	Making it through a full 24 hours without a single misstep is called ragging.
0:06.7	The only other people who've ever done it, Leiaia Coco, Jack Welsh and no judgment,
0:10.8	it's an almost same.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to episode 868.
0:33.0	The Sada Haru O episode of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball perspectives
0:39.2	presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:43.4	I am Ben Lindbergh, a 538 joined by Sam Miller, a baseball prospect.
0:47.6	Hello.
0:48.6	So Mike Traut made a mechanical adjustment and has been on base in seven of his last
0:53.5	eight play appearances.
0:54.6	So I think it's time to talk about Traut and Harper.
0:57.3	Who's better?
0:58.3	Yeah.
0:59.3	Right now?
1:00.3	Right now?
1:01.3	In the last 14 hours or so.
1:02.9	Yeah.
1:03.9	You got to say Traut.
1:04.9	Now in the four or five hours before that, Harper.
1:07.4	Yeah.
1:08.4	So Traut was on base a bunch of times.
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