Effectively Wild Episode 908: Remember the Rays?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about Santos Saldivar and discuss Tim Lincecum’s comeback, two player demotions, and the decline of the Tampa Bay Rays.
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| 0:00.0 | No that I, I love you, beautiful freak, beautiful freak, you know that I, I love you. |
| 0:15.0 | Beautiful freak, beautiful freak, beautiful freak, beautiful freak, beautiful freak, beautiful freak, beautiful freak. |
| 0:30.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 908 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcasts from Baseball |
| 0:35.8 | Perspectus brought to you by the plate index, baseballreference.com and our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lumberg at 538, hello Ben. Hello. How are you? All right. |
| 0:48.2 | Ben a long time since I got the number wrong. Yeah that's true. I used to get the number, I used to get the number wrong a lot. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes you did. You have anything you want to talk about? Well our guest from a few weeks ago, |
| 0:58.9 | Santo Saldovar, who was a stopper's pitcher, we signed based on college stats from a spreadsheet |
| 1:05.8 | and he came out for Sonoma and was great and the best pitcher in the league probably after the day he |
| 1:12.1 | debuted. So we had him on the podcast a few weeks ago because the Milwaukee Brewers signed him and |
| 1:17.8 | added him to their minor league system. So he debuted yesterday for the Helena Brewers, |
| 1:23.7 | which is a pioneer league team advanced rookie league and he did okay. He stranded a couple runners |
| 1:30.3 | when he came in out of the bullpen. He pitched in and in and a third, gave up a couple hits and |
| 1:36.3 | I believe in unearned run there was an error behind him. Struck out a sixth rounder so he did it. |
| 1:43.0 | So he's an actual baseball player now and he told me that he was not happy with this stuff and |
| 1:49.5 | everything was up but he is getting better every day. Good for him. 20, 23 pitches, 16 strikes. |
| 1:56.5 | Got to love that. Yeah. Yeah. Good strike rate and three of them swinging. Yeah. Well good. That's |
| 2:03.1 | awesome. I listened to I listened to two almost full Helena Brewers games waiting for him to show up |
| 2:13.3 | and then naturally he pitches in the game that I did not listen to. Yeah. Well, apparently I was |
| 2:20.6 | not listening to the broadcast because I was at an e-ball game myself but there was a part |
| 2:26.7 | on the broadcast. Someone told me where Helen is an answer. Talked about Santo scaring someone with |
| 2:32.0 | a curve ball which we've seen. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. It doesn't actually matter if you listen or |
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