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I'm not safe, won't you, what you're not good sound noise?

I'm not safe, won't you, what you're not good sound?

Hello and welcome to episode 911 of Effectively Wild,

the Daily Podcasts from Baseball Prospectus,

presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sam Miller,

a baseball prospectus, hello Sam.

We're going to combine a couple quick interviews for this show.

So later on, we'll be talking to Brett Shipp,

of WFA in Dallas about the Ranger Stadium funding news.

But first, we're going to follow up on something we bantered about yesterday.

Sam and I tried to summarize the research of Professor Alan Nathan,

who is a physics of baseball expert and author.

And we were talking about Stephen Wright, Red Sox, Knuckleballer,

and a couple of really interesting pitches he threw.

And so we tried to sort of read the research on the fly and put it into the podcast.

But we thought it would probably be better if we just talked to Alan Nathan ourselves.

So Alan, welcome back to the show.

Yeah, I'm good to be here.

Okay, so did we do a decent job of summarizing how most Knuckleballers work,

which is that the movement is erratic in that you never know which way the Knuckleball is going to break.

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