
Effectively Wild Episode 1994: Down Goes Dinger
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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How to Talk to a Catcher in Real Time
"I don't like it even a little bit. I think it's a bad idea, except, like you said, in an all-star game when it doesn't matter." "It'd be cool if he was like, this is what we're calling here and here's why ... But you can't do that because the better we'll hear you," she says of Astros' catcher Martine Maldonado. "[Maldonado] famously beloved by the Astros pitching staff thought to be very good at the catching part of his job... And so what I would posit is that you should not distract him from the place where he does the good part of hisJob"
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