
Effectively Wild Episode 1999: Meet a Maggi Leaguer
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Hidden Injury Epidemic Is Big Hands
There were 23 catcher interference incidents in the first 30 team season of 1998. In 2010 there were 28, but it didn't go above 28 And then suddenly, 2015, 33, 2016, 41, 2017, 43 2018, 41, 2019, 61 and then 62, 74 last year,. On pace for many more this season even if we were to stay on the current pace and have 170 It's still not that many, it's right now happening once every 14 games or so Which is 28 or 29 team games to each catcher interference So it's basically happening 5 or 6 times per season per team.
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