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Effectively Wild Episode 1976: Season Preview Series: Dodgers and Cubs

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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Is There a Limit to Counterintuitive Messages to Baseball Players?

I can imagine it being almost psychologically damaging to a hitter to say, hey, you're in account where it's like the only scenario where it might go well because it's so hard. And even then, just down there, like you would feel not worthless, but worthless. I do think that there is like a limit to sort of counterintuitive messages that you could get a player to buy. You know, there just is and I don't know that it's really worth a lot on balance to try to untangle that bit of intuitiveness in the mind of a hitter.

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