Effectively Wild Episode 959: Mike Trout’s Highest Hurdle

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about Rich Hill, Clayton Kershaw, and Shohei Otani, then answer listener emails about Mike Trout, playoff formats, inflated homer totals, their introductions to baseball, and more.

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0:00.0	Bob Power's got no plan to go!
0:03.9	Bob Power's an end now, one to go!
0:09.9	Bob Power's a guaranteed overview!
0:16.1	Bob Power's a lack of energy!
0:21.5	Hello and welcome to episode 959 of Effectively Wild.
0:26.3	We're daily podcasting baseball perspectives presented by our Patreon supporters and the
0:30.5	play index at facebookreference.com.
0:33.0	I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller.
0:36.0	Hello!
0:37.0	Hello!
0:38.0	A couple things before we get to emails, Rich Hill News and Shohe O'Connie News.
0:42.2	And also before we get to that, two May acompas on my part.
0:46.0	So first of all, first of all, I do want to confirm what our guest on Friday said.
0:51.3	Joe Buck did say that the runner was going on the pitch.
0:55.5	And so the wild pitch where he advanced two bases makes extra sense.
0:59.4	Although I had no problem with that as it was, however, because I did smugly, I think,
1:05.8	act like I knew what Joe Buck's play by play had been.
1:08.7	I owe everybody an apology.
1:10.7	I was wrong.
1:11.7	Okay, that's in the show pitch, by the way, if anyone didn't hear Friday's episode.
1:15.9	Yeah, which you should.
1:17.1	The other thing is that on Monday's episode, I referred to Tony and Kniigliaro as Rocky
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