Effectively Wild Episode 1428: The Big Dombrowski
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Michael Lorenzen, Shohei Ohtani, and two-way terminology, marvel at Eugenio Suárez and other surprises from the 2019 home run leaderboard, celebrate the AL wild card race, salute the improving A’s and Rays, and discuss teams that are reshaping their potential playoff rosters late in the regular season, respond at length to the breaking news that the Red Sox have fired president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski less than a year after winning the World Series, and then play a Cy Young award game and analyze the legacy of Justin Verlander.
Audio intro: Ben Folds, "Fired"
Audio outro: Midnight Oil, "Short Memory"
Link to story on Mitch Garver’s reinvention
Link to Ken Rosenthal’s speculation about Dombrowski
Link to Alex Speier’s book Homegrown
Link to Ben on Boston’s post-championship complacency
Link to Passan report on Dombrowski
Link to Baumann on Verlander
Link to FiveThirtyEight article on Verlander
Link to Craig Edwards on Verlander’s home run rate
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Don't think that I don't know what you're saying about me |
| 0:06.0 | I hear it all through these thin walls |
| 0:10.0 | And I just want to walk away |
| 0:16.0 | Where should I walk away this time? |
| 0:22.0 | And I just want to walk away |
| 0:26.0 | Everyone was fired |
| 0:30.0 | Everyone was oh oh oh oh |
| 0:34.0 | Everyone was fired |
| 0:36.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1428 |
| 0:40.0 | Effectively wild |
| 0:42.0 | baseball podcast from fan graphs |
| 0:44.0 | spot you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN |
| 0:48.0 | Along with Ben Lindbergh, hopefully ringer |
| 0:50.0 | I Ben, hi |
| 0:52.0 | I want to note that since Shoé O'Tonney debuted in the majors |
| 0:56.0 | Mike Lorenzen has a lower ERA, a higher OPS |
| 1:00.0 | And more innings in the field |
| 1:04.0 | So that's a Mike Lorenzen fun fact for you |
| 1:06.0 | I would say that's a Mike Lorenzen fun fact |
| 1:08.0 | It doesn't cheapen what he's now |
| 1:10.0 | It is, it is a Mike Lorenzen fun fact for you |
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