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Effectively Wild Episode 1993: Break(out) the Cycle

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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How to Prepare for an Unhittable Pitch

If he throws the unhittable pitch, it's unhittable. So I don't need to worry about that, right? There's nothing I can do. And so I should just act as if it's not going to be the unhittability pitch. If it is, well, it won't be any worse off, right? So be the batting average you want to see in the world. Now, easier said than done. Because you know he's got this unhittable Pitch. Right. But statistically speaking, at least like it wouldn't be that big a deal because the run value of changing a ball to a strike or whatever, it's not that huge.

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