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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2202: The Hierarchy of Versatility

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the appeal of deflected balls caught on the fly, the lack of variety in MLB.TV highlights, Aaron Judge’s bases-empty intentional walks, the Braves falling out of playoff position (for now), and the surprising team with a trio of young, above-average, qualified hitters. Then (40:44) they rank the types […]

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0:00.0

How do you calculate more?

0:06.0

Does it come from the heart?

0:10.0

Should we use defensive run saved or follow the OAA way?

0:19.0

Who's gone away in with their quips and opinions.

0:27.0

It's effectively wild.

0:29.0

Hello and welcome to episode 2202 ofively Wild, a fangrass of baseball.

0:34.0

The number, the number trip me up and then I got fast it and I started congratulating myself.

0:44.0

There's a lot of twos.

0:45.0

So many, so many twos, Ben.

0:49.0

Should we try again or should we just, you know, it's brought to you by our Patreon supporters for whom we are so

0:54.2

grateful I am a growly fan graphs you are Ben Lindbergh of the ringer Ben how are you I'm

1:00.7

doing just fine I don't know how you're doing I I'm doing great. It's Friday. It's a Friday show. You know, we love a Friday show and we love Fridays really pro-Fry-Fry know what else I have realized?

1:12.8

I love a deflection on defense, a ball that is caught after hitting something, someone,

1:20.0

and then someone else catches it.

1:22.5

Did you see the play in the Rockies Mets game

1:27.0

on Thursday that involved a double play deflection?

1:50.0

And that's a rocket, that's an hour. deflection, a line drive back up the middle, through the box, Francisco and Door,

1:57.0

deflected a liner off of pitcher Peter Lambert's glove, and then it was caught by Rocky shortstop Ezekiel Tovar,

2:06.4

who threw to first to double off the runner,

2:09.0

who was on first.

2:10.2

I had to watch the replay a few times

2:12.4

to discern that this was, fact a deflection and it seemed like even one of the

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