Effectively Wild Episode 948: Is Smart Baseball Boring?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk to BP’s Rob Mains about what Billy Hamilton’s career might have looked like in an earlier era, and whether baseball teams’ increasing efficiency has made the sport better or worse as a spectator experience.

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0:00.0	No, I'm still down, it's a bit or down I ever did
0:05.2	Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
0:11.2	I'm still down, after all this time
0:16.2	Looking like the fears to the mind like without you on my mind
0:21.4	I'm still down, yeah, yeah, yeah
0:26.8	I'm still down, yeah, yeah, yeah
0:30.6	Good morning and welcome to episode 948 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast
0:35.4	and Baseball Prospectus presented by Out supporters on Patreon
0:39.4	and playindex at baseballreference.com
0:41.6	I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer, joined by Sam Miller, still of Baseball Prospectus
0:46.8	For now, hello, hey, how are you?
0:49.2	Alright, so we have a guest, we're gonna talk about Baseball with that guest in just a moment
0:54.2	But for once you have an announcement to make
0:57.2	Yeah, well, I have an announcement to acknowledge, the announcement was made a few minutes ago on Twitter
1:03.8	You scooped us?
1:04.8	I scooped you?
1:06.0	I guess ESPN's PR people scooped us
1:08.4	Yeah, exactly
1:09.4	So I am, yeah, I'm at the end of the month, I'm going to be starting a new job at ESPN
1:14.4	which means I'm going to be ending my current job at Baseball Prospectus
1:17.4	So that's the news, Ben, yeah, congratulations
1:21.4	Thank you
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