Effectively Wild Episode 1966: Joe West, Young Man
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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Is It Better to Aim for a Hole?
Every ball you hit is going to the Crawford boxes. You don't have to worry about getting it 400 feet. Or you could even not swing for the fences. It would be very hard to defend against this, even if they weren't hitting homers. I think probably Babbop would be quite high just being able to hit it where they ain't. Tommy John's surgery frequency would certainly go down too.
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