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Effectively Wild Episode 2034: Strand Rate

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Pros and Cons of Starting an All-Star Game

The all-star game is usually finished up with the less impressive or popular players. I would like if the starters played more, just stayed in longer but I don't think I would advocate for just flipping it. If they're only going to play part of the game, it probably still is better for them to play the beginning of the game. But then again, you'd also have some games where the game was out of hand by that point, and everyone had tuned out. So you have to have the A lineup out there to start the game in theory. Right? With pitchers, you're often bringing in some pretty good pitchers as the innings go on. Everyone's pitching an inning

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