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Effectively Wild Episode 2000: We Thought of More Things We Like About Baseball

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Importance of Slow Rollers in Baseball

The first baseman rolling ground balls to the other infielders strikes me as not suitable to their skill level if that makes sense. I just feel like getting a slow roller thrown to you by the first baseman doesn't really prepare you for anything and yet they they do it they do it it's part of the job so they show up they feel the slow roller thrown across the infield from the wrong angle to them and they use two hands then they throw it back. It reminds me of like if every time I sat down to write an article I had to first take out one of those like kindergarten sheets of paper with like the dotted line and work on my letters, he says.

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