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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 891: The Support Saberseminar Edition

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Ben, Sam, and listener Corey McMahon plug the Saberseminar, then answer listener emails about automated strike zones, Jackie Bradley, Mike Trout, Bill Wambsganss, Willians Astudillo and more.

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I come back to the ones that I know, with all my canopy what I want to be.

0:08.5

Just what we call the feelings ago, and with you that too, help me, and then it probably

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will.

0:16.0

Good morning, and welcome to Episode 891 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball

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Perspectus, presented by the Playindex at BaseballReference.com and our Patreon supporters.

0:27.7

I am Ben Lundberg of 538, joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus.

0:31.8

Hello.

0:32.8

So once a year we do an email show in which we are joined by a listener who has donated

0:39.9

for the privilege of being on the show, or primarily probably for the privilege of supporting

0:46.2

worthy charities.

0:47.6

But a nice side benefit is that that person gets to be on the show.

0:50.8

So every year, every summer, our friend Dan Brooks and also Chuck Corb organized the Saber

0:56.0

Seminar, a great baseball event that is held in August in Boston, and it is held to benefit

1:03.6

the Jimmy Fund, which is an anti-cancer charity.

1:07.7

And this year, we'll also benefit the Angioma Alliance, which is another research-based

1:13.0

charity.

1:14.3

And so it's a great cause.

1:15.9

It's a great event, and it's going to be held on August 13th and 14th in Boston this

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summer.

1:22.5

Unfortunately, Sam and I couldn't make it last summer because we were running the stoppers,

1:26.0

but this year, it looks like we will both be there.

1:28.8

There is even a possibility that we'll be doing something podcast-related, although that

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