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Effectively Wild Episode 1966: Joe West, Young Man

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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Is It Still Baseball?

If batters had to toss the ball up at least as high as their head and then swing it on the drop? Badders would get up to seven tosses per it bat. What would a home run season high look like? Who would have the most strikeouts? Is this still baseball? And this is basically like pescapello rules almost, I guess, where they don't toss themselves the ball, but it is tossed up.

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