Effectively Wild Episode 95: Switch-Hitters Who Shouldn’t Switch-Hit/What We Learned from The Book/Dan Haren vs. Edwin Jackson/The Yunel Escobar Trade and the Yankees

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2012

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails mostly (but not entirely) about things that happened on day two of the Winter Meetings.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 95 of Effectively Wild, the baseball
0:23.1	perspective daily podcast in Nashville, Tennessee for the third episode in a row
0:30.0	and the final episode. I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach, California. New BBWA
0:38.0	member Sam Miller. Congratulations on being admitted to the official baseball
0:45.2	writers club. Thanks Ben. Yeah. How do you like it? How do you like being in it? It's
0:51.6	been good for me. Did it you anywhere to in this this week? The winter meetings? Did it get you
0:56.5	any access? It got me into the media work room and I might have been able to get in there anyway,
1:05.1	but we had a bunch of people here from BP who are requesting passes, so not necessarily. So yes,
1:11.2	it helped me this week and helped me throughout the season. It is it is nice to be able to wander
1:16.4	into a ballpark whenever you feel like it. Yeah, that's the primary benefit. Yes, definitely,
1:23.3	yes. At any inning with no notice. As it is now, it usually requires a day of notice or two days
1:32.5	on the weekend and you can't go into the park until about three and a half hours before the game,
1:38.8	which is actually not really quite early enough a lot of times. And you have to ask your boss to
1:47.8	put in some requests. And if you go to a visiting park, there's no telling what will happen.
1:53.3	That's true. That's true. I went to the Yankees Park and I was allowed to talk to the Angels Only,
1:59.8	which I had never run into. Yes, certain certain teams are strict, but no longer a problem for you
2:06.2	all doors are open. Yeah, all right. So let's let's answer some emails. Shall I do the reading?
2:13.4	Okay, sure. All right, so we have some emails. The first email question is actually two emails
2:21.0	from two separate individuals. One is named Mike and he asks, at what point should a switch hitter
2:27.6	stop being a switch hitter? When's there a large discrepancy between there when there's a large
2:32.7	discrepancy between there? Performance at what point is it better to scrap the platoon advantage
2:36.5	and hit from the favorable side? Meanwhile, a gentleman named Joel asks the exact same question.
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