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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 991: In-Shoots, Out-Curves, and Drop Balls

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about Josh Harrison and old-timey pitch names, then answer listener emails about sabermetrics and fandom, baseball and birthdates, players’ phone numbers, managing bullpens, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

My life's a color, turning my face

0:05.0

I can't quit the coffee shop if I use

0:10.0

Lone practicalish of Thursday

0:14.0

I deny a belly under my weight

0:18.0

Where I'll be be up with my love for eyes

0:22.0

She's myself living there, up in my shell

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to episode 991

0:33.0

Our Effectively Wild, the daily podcast

0:35.0

From baseball perspective, presented by our Patreon supporters

0:39.0

and the play index at baseballreference.com

0:42.0

and Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller or ESPN

0:46.0

Hello, how are you?

0:48.0

You wrote an article that Josh Harrison's pickle skills

0:51.0

Yeah I did.

0:53.0

How'd you get that idea?

0:55.0

How happy was your editor when you pitched it?

0:58.0

I got that idea actually from my longest play research

1:03.0

Josh Harrison, most of the longest plays that I was looking at were

1:08.0

you know, multiple throwing errors or

1:11.0

or multiple pickles

1:13.0

You know, pickle between first and second

1:15.0

which then turns into a pickle between third and home

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