Effectively Wild Episode 978: Broken Bones and Broken Records

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about four pitchers with a broken bone, then answer listener emails about Ichiro, Bryce Harper, catchers, throwing games, whether players are making the most of their skills, and more.

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0:00.0	For Gods that made our million
0:22.8	Hello and welcome to episode 978
0:26.0	of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus
0:29.4	presented by I went Patreon supporters
0:31.6	and the play index at baseballreference.com
0:34.4	I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer
0:36.7	joined as always by Sam Miller of ESPN
0:40.2	Hello, hey, how are you?
0:42.2	I'm okay, how are you?
0:43.8	All right. Can I tell you what I stumbled across today?
0:48.0	Please do. This was from the Los Angeles Times in 1927, I believe,
0:54.1	and
0:58.9	and it is headlined
1:01.2	pictures break bone while tossing ball.
1:04.8	Pictures plural.
1:06.2	Yeah, okay.
1:07.6	So the reason I bring this up is because we just talked about
1:11.2	poor who was at Tommy Holmes or something like that
1:14.0	who broke his arm mid throw in high school
1:17.7	and we talked about how painful that would be
1:19.9	to watch. And so this headline got me because it's
1:23.5	apparently two pictures breaking a bone while tossing a ball
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