Effectively Wild Episode 936: Make Bryce Harper Fun Again
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ben talks to FanGraphs writer Jeff Sullivan and FiveThirtyEight writer Rob Arthur about Bryce Harper’s extended slump and their surprising (and somewhat dismaying) findings about his great 2015.
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| 0:00.0 | Conquer sessions and the drugs like the fate of the park desert strip |
| 0:05.8 | Martian's parade and they make me a tie |
| 0:10.0 | I will lie |
| 0:15.0 | It's all right, it's okay, it's all bad and the day is all easy |
| 0:21.4 | Everything's cool, it's okay, it's all right and the night is all good |
| 0:29.4 | Good morning and welcome to episode 936 of Effectively While the Daily Podcast |
| 0:36.0 | The baseball perspective presented by our supporters on Patreon and the baseball reference play index and Ben Lindbergh of the ringer |
| 0:42.5 | Not joined today by Sam Miller my usual co-host who had a conflict at our recording time today |
| 0:48.0 | But I am joined by two capable Sam Miller substitutes Jeff Sullivan of fan graphs and Rob Arthur of 538 |
| 0:54.0 | This is an episode about Bryce Harper and a little backstory here |
| 0:57.3 | I was thinking of writing something about Bryce Harper everyone's writing their Bryce Harper post because |
| 1:02.0 | Bryce Harper is having a hard time hitting these days and then yesterday |
| 1:05.7 | I saw somewhat to my dismay that both Rob and Jeff had written about Bryce Harper |
| 1:10.6 | Which means that I will not be writing about Bryce Harper on the bright side |
| 1:13.8 | The Bryce Harper post could not be in better hands than Jeff's and Rob's and I was hoping that when I clicked on their articles |
| 1:19.8 | I would see some good news I'd find out that Bryce Harper was coming out of the slump that there was no reason to worry |
| 1:25.6 | That we'd soon see the Bryce Harper we marveled at in 2015 turns out not so much |
| 1:31.2 | So Jeff Rob, para real downers welcome back to the podcast. Hello |
| 1:36.4 | So had you guys been planning to write about Bryce Harper for a while and you just happened to write about |
| 1:41.6 | Bryce Harper on the same day was it just in the air that |
| 1:44.4 | Bryce Harper had to be written about? Yes. I don't really |
| 1:49.1 | Okay, that's one yes |
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