Effectively Wild Episode 1436: Reviewing the Regular Season
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s mental preparations for Félix Hernández’s probable last start as a Mariner, the dubious appeal of playing spoiler, the biggest hits of the season according to Championship Win Probability Added, Rowdy Tellez delivering on a promised home run, what Meg loves about baseball, both hosts’ experiences in the Arizona Fall League, Mike Minor, Ronald Guzmán, and the intentionally dropped popup heard round the world, how to judge the quality of a regular season, and how the 2019 regular season stacks up.
Audio intro: Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Minor Thing"
Audio outro: James Taylor, "Let it Fall Down"
Link to Tellez story
Link to biggest cWPA plays of the 2019 regular season
Link to all-time top postseason cWPA plays
Link to video of Hal Smith home run
Link to Ben on Amaya at Scout School
Link to Levi on Minor
Link to MLB.com on Minor
Link to Rob Arthur on parity and attendance
Link to Manfred on the ball
Link to Meg on Félix
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | I changed the key for a city day and say to me, it's just a minor thing yo |
| 0:06.0 | It's everything, to be just you got to trust that other forces just a minor thing yo |
| 0:14.0 | It's just a minor thing, I'm a minor king |
| 0:24.0 | It's just a minor thing, I'm a minor king |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1436 in the effectively wild of baseball podcasts from Fangress brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Nick Rowley reporting live from the desert and I joined as always by Ben Lumberg of the ringer |
| 0:45.0 | Then how are you? |
| 0:46.0 | I'm doing well, how are you? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm preparing to feel some feelings |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah |
| 0:51.0 | I'm recording this on Thursday and Felix is making his final start as a mariner and I'm prepared to cry |
| 0:58.0 | You never know |
| 0:59.0 | You never know, but I'm prepared to have some feelings about it |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, so you're at the Arizona Fall League which I will ask you about but what does that mean for you? |
| 1:08.0 | Felix viewing situation, how are you going to take in this game? |
| 1:13.0 | Well, oddly enough, right before we started recording it started raining here |
| 1:19.0 | So yeah, no kidding, yeah, they're spent some very dramatic weather |
| 1:25.0 | I would feel bad about bringing rain to the desert but everyone down here seems very appreciative to get the moisture which I suppose is unsurprising |
| 1:33.0 | So I think that I will likely watch this game on my laptop in my Airbnb and resume Fall League actions tomorrow evening |
| 1:41.0 | so that I can finish writing a piece about it for Fangress tomorrow |
| 1:46.0 | So that's the way |
| 1:47.0 | Maybe with a glass of wine, some sort of sedative, just in case things get... |
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