Effectively Wild Episode 887: Sabermetrics Meets the Mexican League
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam talk to Tadeo Varela, sabermetric analyst for the Toros de Tijuana of the Mexican League, about the team’s pursuit of a statistical advantage.
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| 0:00.0 | yenben niga diwana yenben niga niamno |
| 0:06.7 | de nocha la mañana yenben niga niamno |
| 0:13.6 | yenben niga diwana yenben niga tu pena |
| 0:20.2 | yenben niga las enam |
| 0:25.8 | good morning and welcome to episode 887 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:30.2 | the daily podcast from baseball perspective presented by the play index at |
| 0:34.5 | baseballreference.com and Ben Lindbergh of 538 joined by Sam Miller of baseball |
| 0:40.3 | perspective slow Sam. |
| 0:41.6 | yep we've got a guest today every now and then every few hundred episodes |
| 0:46.2 | I like to take a little tour around the world of Saber metrics and talk to |
| 0:51.2 | someone who is interested in the things that we are interested in and does the |
| 0:55.7 | sort of things that we do in a completely different environment and of course |
| 1:00.3 | Sam and I sort of experience that in the Pacific Association last season but |
| 1:04.4 | that was at least the same country and so there were some constants but we |
| 1:10.2 | talked last summer in episode 700 to Anthony Rezken who is a statistical |
| 1:15.8 | analyst for the Sydney Blue Sox in the Australian baseball league and before |
| 1:20.2 | that episode 426 we talked to Alejandro Aldama who is a Saber |
| 1:25.3 | matrician in Cuba and today we are talking to today Overella who is a |
| 1:31.3 | Saber matrician in the Mexican league and he works for the Toros de Tijuana and |
| 1:37.0 | we wanted to have him on today to tell us a little bit about the league and the |
| 1:42.1 | team and what he does and maybe what he does that's the same as the sort of |
| 1:47.0 | Saber metric work we're familiar with and maybe some things he does that are |
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