Effectively Wild Episode 1636: A First-Ballot Hall of Fame Voter
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs Hall of Fame expert Jay Jaffe (the author of The Cooperstown Casebook) discuss Jay’s experience as a first-time Hall of Fame voter, the case of Curt Schilling, weighing on-field contributions and off-field transgressions, the players on Jay’s ballot, the candidacies of Billy Wagner, Gary Sheffield, Omar Vizquel, and others, adjusting the baseline for Hall of Fame starting pitchers, Jay’s predictions for this year’s voting results, a preview of the upcoming Cooperstown classes, the record number of Hall of Fame players who died in 2020, how to better honor baseball greats while they’re still alive, the Hall of Fame ramifications of reclassifying the Negro Leagues as major leagues, and more.
Audio intro: Guided By Voices, "High Five Hall of Famers"
Audio outro: The Felice Brothers, "Cooperstown"
Link to Jay’s ballot post
Link to The Cooperstown Casebook
Link to Jay on this ballot’s big questions
Link to the HoF Ballot Tracker
Link to Jay on Schilling
Link to Craig Calcaterra on Schilling
Link to Zach Hayes on Schilling
Link to Jay on Vizquel
Link to The Athletic report on Vizquel
Link to Sam on Pettitte
Link to Jeff Snider on Hall of Famer deaths
Link to Jay on Allen
Link to story on overlooked Negro Leaguers
Link to story on reclassification and Cooperstown
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| 0:00.3 | The high High Farm 123 |
| 0:07.3 | Regress |
| 0:11.3 | linear |
| 0:18.0 | thech |
| 0:04.3 | Famers have no regrets |
| 0:09.3 | Exposing them are his dream |
| 0:15.3 | Though he rests |
| 0:17.3 | The high-five all-out favor |
| 0:21.3 | Touch his screaming from your knees |
| 0:25.3 | We can have the color of the clouds |
| 0:31.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 1636 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.3 | with baseball podcasts from FanGrafts presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:40.3 | I am Ben Birk of the Ringer, joined as always by Meg Rally of FanGrafts Hello Meg |
| 0:44.3 | Hello |
| 0:45.3 | And we are also joined by our pal J. Jaffy, also of FanGrafts Hello J |
| 0:50.3 | Hello |
| 0:51.3 | So you're an expert on the baseball hall fame |
| 0:54.3 | You wrote the Cooperstown casebook |
| 0:56.3 | You developed the JAWS system |
| 0:58.3 | Jaffy wins above replacement score to evaluate hall fame worthiness |
| 1:02.3 | And it's sort of an effectively wild tradition for us to have you on every year |
| 1:06.3 | Roughly at this time to talk about the hall fame |
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