Effectively Wild Episode 1417: Defining Fun Facts
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about how Gleyber Torres’s ownership of the Orioles and Aristides Aquino’s home-run spree are emblematic of 2019, fun facts about players’ accomplishments in their first X games, home-run fun facts and the juiced ball, Juan Soto vs. Ronald Acuña, Jr., two recent Scott Boras quotes, the Dodgers’ near-record extra-base-hits game, and Jeff Mathis’s offensive ineptitude and defensive prowess, then discuss an ESPN oral history of the 1994 strike, touching on whether the sport would have survived the extensive use of replacement players, the change in media coverage of baseball labor issues, what the biggest loss would be if the rest of the 2019 season were canceled, and more.
Audio intro: Chance The Rapper, "Juice"
Audio outro: The Rock*A*Teens, "Pretty Thoughts Strike Down the Band"
Link to story on Torres and the Orioles
Link to Ben on breakout batters
Link to Jay Jaffe on Aquino
Link to C. Trent Rosecrans on Aquino’s swing change
Link to list of players with most batting runs through age 20
Link to Sam on Scioscia, Mathis, and Napoli
Link to Sam on Scioscia and defense again
Link to R.J. Anderson on Jeff Mathis’s game-calling
Link to worst offensive careers (min. 2500 PA)
Link to worst offensive single seasons (min. 200 PA)
Link to Tim Kurkjian’s oral history of the strike
Link to Ben on Lords of the Realm
Link to the book Baseball’s Power Shift
Link to Emma Baccellieri on players’ social media advocacy
Link to Evan Drellich’s oral history of the strike
Link to Bryan Curtis on the liberalization of sportswriting
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | So the juice bill everybody want to be in and then everybody want to do |
| 0:03.5 | Told you I ain't worried I ain't started a book |
| 0:05.4 | All you can do is read a verse and a truth |
| 0:07.3 | Marry some mixture with the characters and the verse of the words |
| 0:10.0 | I got some juice |
| 0:11.2 | Juice, juice, juice, juice |
| 0:14.6 | And then I got a million and then I got a million |
| 0:18.2 | You got juice, juice, juice, juice |
| 0:22.2 | And then I got a million and then I got a million |
| 0:26.6 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1417 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:31.0 | baseball podcast from fangraphs.com |
| 0:33.7 | brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN, along with Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer |
| 0:40.9 | Hey, hello, is the Glaver Torres homeruns against the Orioles |
| 0:46.1 | The Defining Fun Fact of this era? |
| 0:49.0 | It has certainly been cited a lot |
| 0:52.2 | I think my pal Zach Kram is writing a whole thing about it for The Ringer right now |
| 0:57.2 | I think I have reached saturation with the Glaver Torres fun fact |
| 1:01.2 | I mean, I guess it keeps getting better because he keeps playing the Orioles and he keeps |
| 1:04.7 | homering against them |
| 1:06.3 | But I don't know what to make of it |
| 1:08.4 | You know, juice ball a year and the Orioles are the worst team and terrible pitching team |
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