Effectively Wild Episode 2221: 50-50 Shot

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and FanGraphs’ Ben Clemens dissect the glorious game in which Shohei Ohtani founded the 50-50 and 51-51 Clubs, Ohtani’s most awe-inspiring feats, and his future, followed (29:51) by banter about the state of defensive stats, the mystery of Salvador Perez’s swing decisions, questionable kudos for Bud Black, whether Victor Robles made the worst […]

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0:00.0	I want to know about baseball
0:02.0	I want to know about every single team
0:06.0	I want to know about sat glass
0:09.0	some fan graphs and about oh oh a D, I'm a very modern fan.
0:15.0	Reading it up on all the analytics.
0:19.0	I want to know about baseball, presented by Patriots supporters of Effectively Wild.
0:27.0	Hello and welcome to Episode 2221 of Effectively Wild, a Baseball Podcast from fan graphs presented by our
0:35.8	Patreon supporters.
0:37.4	I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer.
0:39.7	Joined today not by Meg Rally who remains on vacation just for this episode. She'll be back next time.
0:44.9	Instead, I am joined by Meck's colleague and sometimes my colleague on this podcast,
0:50.0	Other Ben, Ben Clemens. Hello Ben.
0:53.1	Hey Ben, how's it going?
0:54.4	Well, you've drawn the assignment of talking to me
0:57.0	the day after the latest awe-inspiring Shohay-otani game,
1:00.6	so I guess you know what is in store for you here and what that assignment calls for.
1:05.0	Absolutely. You've already blogged about O'Tani so you are well prepared to discuss two
1:11.4	Ben's raving about O' Otani and neither named Verlander.
1:14.6	What an upset, but we will do our best.
1:18.0	So Mooke Betts said that this game and Otani's exploits in general makes you speechless and now it's
1:26.4	time to test that contention because speechlessness doesn't work so well on podcast.
1:30.9	But you kind of echoed that sentiment in your article when you
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