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Effectively Wild Episode 1999: Meet a Maggi Leaguer

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Impossible Things Baseball Players Do

I wonder whether we're seeing more catchers get hit on back swings, which the penalty to that is you just got hit by a bat. It's not like we've seen so many injuries all of a sudden from catchers. They're always going to get hit by foul tips and everything. But if there are more catcher's interference calls, there are probably also more cases of catchers getting nicked on back swings too. And it's just another bruise to add to catcher's bodies. So I would be quite wary. Imagine how many close calls and near misses there are if there are this many contacts. If I got hit, I would learn my lesson from that and I

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