Effectively Wild Episode 910: Mike Trout’s Identical Twin

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Ben and Sam banter about Steven Wright and knuckleball physics, then answer listener emails about the least interesting inning, the one-baserunner leash, an all-or-nothing Ichiro, Mike Trout’s hypothetical twin and more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 910 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball
0:57.0	about a month to go or a few weeks ago where he got Chris Davis to whiff and it really really looked like
1:03.0	the pitch went in two different directions on its way to the plate and then there was just this
1:08.0	recent one I saw in Reddit that is the ball does not complete a revolution on its way to the plate.
1:15.3	It doesn't even really seem to come close and yet he gets a swinging strike and so much fun to watch
1:22.6	and yet he gets a swinging strike. Well yeah I guess that's why he's a big swing.
1:27.3	And Vossley.
1:29.8	Do you does it actually is there anything illusory in that is there is there anything at all that's
1:37.1	it just a trick of the eye or is it actually changing directions more than once?
1:43.6	I don't think it can. This is something that Alan Nathan would know about and probably has
1:51.1	written about because he's written a ton about knuckle balls so maybe you can google and find
1:56.2	something about whether it changes direction on the way of the plate. I'm pretty sure I've seen
2:00.5	him do something on that topic. The thing with the knuckle ball is that its location is completely
2:07.7	unpredictable like you know the pitcher aims for some part of the strike zone and then the movement
2:14.0	is just sort of random and even he doesn't know where it will go around that sort of central point
2:20.0	that he's aiming for. I'm not sure if it actually can change directions on the way the plate.
2:26.1	Do you see anything? Well as you know the problem with with trying to read Alan Nathan while
2:30.6	somebody is talking is that Alan Nathan it shows his work and so it's not that skimmable sometimes.
2:36.4	I read the footnotes. Yeah exactly. It's very academic very informative. This might not answer it.
2:41.1	I don't even know I haven't even gotten to the end of it but this is a in a description of an R.A.
2:44.5	Dickey pitch. The first change of slope occurs at point one seconds. The ball doesn't actually move
2:49.9	to the right rather it continues to move to the left but at a reduced speed of about 1.2 feet per
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