Effectively Wild Episode 900: The Salvy Won’t Save You Edition
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about the brawl between the Orioles and Royals, then answer listener emails about Clayton Kershaw, Jon Lester, beating the shift, and how bad they would be at calling balls and strikes.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been caught still in, once, where now it's fine, I ain't just the only one, I just |
| 0:07.3 | sit for the stand, overlapped, just stay, simple back, when I want something and I don't |
| 0:16.6 | wanna be regret. |
| 0:17.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 900 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectives, |
| 0:24.2 | presented by the play index at baseballreference.com and our supporters on Patreon. |
| 0:29.3 | I am Dan Lemberg, a 538, joined by Sam Miller, baseball, perspective, slow. |
| 0:33.5 | Hey, man. |
| 0:34.5 | Got an email show today, got some really good emails, and you know, it was an excited |
| 0:38.3 | about answering anything you wanna talk about before we do. |
| 0:41.2 | I don't know, so you saw the fight, you know. |
| 0:44.9 | Yes. |
| 0:45.9 | And, you're Machado, you're Donovan Tour. |
| 0:47.5 | By far the most interesting part of the fight was, Sal Perez letting it happen. |
| 0:53.4 | Like he just sort of, just jogs very casually, does not try to, he doesn't try to get in front |
| 0:58.4 | of Machado, he doesn't try to hold him or anything, he just sort of jogs after him. |
| 1:03.4 | And this was very suspicious and a violation of the unwritten rules. |
| 1:08.1 | But there's nobody to hit, there's nobody to throw a pitch at, at Sal Perez because he's |
| 1:14.0 | violating the unwritten rule against his own, his own team. |
| 1:17.2 | So do you think that the Orioles are obligated to do something nice for Sal Perez? |
| 1:22.8 | Is the reverse that they have to throw on the cookie? |
| 1:26.2 | Do you think anyone is upset about this in the Royal Clubhouse? |
| 1:30.1 | I depends, I mean, yeah, I think so. |
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