
Effectively Wild Episode 1873: Puke and Rally Cap
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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Is the Home Team a Hitter?
When the home team starts batting, no outs, no one on, in the bottom of the first, and is trailing by a run. The visiting team's win expectancy is only 51 point seven %. So that, to me, that's like, i suppose it's still sort of a comeback, but it's barely come back. And we got a question from bryan who says, i have a pedantic thing that occurred to me last night. They are not all hitters. I am willing to grant that any one who hits one fowl is a hitter. But if you do not make contact in any way, you are merely a batter. they all do carry bats to the
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