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Podcast: Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Episode: Effectively Wild Episode 1997: This Time it Pitch Counts
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the podcastâs semi-official new nickname for Yandy DĂaz, what Mookie Betts playing shortstop says about the Dodgers, and Andrew McCutchenâs hot start, then (15:29) answer emails about the Redsâ many mascots, why we stop at âQuadruple-A,â how good todayâs 26th men would be if they traveled back in time, sticky stuff on a tacky ball, and whether MLB would ever privatize publicly accessible Statcast data, followed (47:48) by a Stat Blast about Ross Stripling and the ultimate swingmen, the longest identical sequences of team wins and losses, and whether working the c...