Effectively Wild Episode 921: Bow Before Shohei Otani

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Ben and Sam talk to Jason Coskrey of The Japan Times about the incredible two-way dominance of Japanese ace/slugger Shohei Otani.

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0:00.0	You are everything.
0:02.0	You are everything.
0:06.0	You are everything.
0:10.0	You are everything.
0:12.0	You are everything.
0:16.0	And everything is you.
0:18.0	And you are everything.
0:24.0	Hello and welcome to episode 921 of Effectively Wild.
0:29.0	The Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus, presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:36.0	I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sam Miller, baseball prospectus, hello.
0:41.0	So to paraphrase Martin Lando's character from entourage, what if I told you there was a baseball player who had David Ortiz's OPS, Clayton Kurshaz, ERA, Noah Sindergards, Fastball Speed, and Strike Out Rate, and had just turned 22-3 days ago.
0:58.0	Would that be something you'd be interested in?
1:01.0	I'm going to assume that it is, it's definitely something I'm interested in.
1:05.0	Yesterday, Vice Sports published a piece called Show Hey O'Tani is the best thing in baseball.
1:11.0	It's pretty tough to argue with that premise right now.
1:14.0	So we are going to do an episode on the most interesting player playing in Japan right now.
1:19.0	And to tell us about him and his season, we are talking to a guest from episode 350 of this podcast.
1:27.0	We talked about Masahiro Tanaka then.
1:30.0	We're going to talk about Otani now with Jason Cosgrey of the Japan Times.
1:35.0	Hey Jason.
1:36.0	Hey, how are you? Thanks for having me.
1:38.0	So I guess I'll just start with the stats just for people who haven't been following Otani's season.
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