Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Episode: Effectively Wild Episode 1958: I Can Be Center Field?
Description:
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about 53-year-old Dae-Sung Koo ๊ตฌ๋์ฑ pitching in Australia, provide a final(?) update on Brandon Beltโs beloved Toronto chicken tenders, discuss the invisible strike zone as a feature that sets baseball apart from other sports (along with listener responses to other differentiating factors), bemoan the results of a Reddit poll about what to call the extra-inning runner, and marvel at investigations into the effect of the orientation of the baseball on its path to the plate and the predictiveness of ERA vs. FIP. Then (47:25) they answer listener emails about home run robberies vs. home run...