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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 903: The Not-So-Surprising Standings

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam do an all-banter episode about the standings through the first 40 percent of the season, Yordano Ventura’s suspension, and the unchanging closer role.

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0:00.0

You love the soul but the devil I can't allow you to blow my brain

0:06.3

You always know it's trick or double

0:10.1

I'll give a ditch of running wild and sane

0:14.0

You love the soul but the devil I said is

0:18.5

You love the soul but the devil I said is

0:22.5

You love the soul but the devil You love the soul but the devil

0:28.5

Good morning and welcome to episode 903 of Effectively Wild

0:31.5

The Daily Podcast from baseballerspectice

0:33.5

Brought to you by the play index

0:35.5

baseballreference.com and our Patreon supporters

0:38.5

I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of 538

0:41.5

Hey Ben how are you doing?

0:43.5

Alright good

0:44.5

I don't have anything in particular I want to talk about today

0:47.5

So I'm just going to go through a bunch of stuff

0:49.5

So you can jump in with a bunch of stuff if you got it

0:51.5

Okay well I just wanted to mention one thing

0:54.5

I was just glancing at the standings page

0:56.5

and we're now about 40% of the way through the season

1:01.5

It's pretty substantial and how many teams would you say would qualify as surprises

1:07.5

or would have made you if you had looked at today's standings on opening day

1:12.5

How many teams would have made you say huh even even a huh

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