Effectively Wild Episode 1654: Home Plate Rump
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about having baseball on the brain and the NL Central’s measly World Series odds, then answer listener emails about umpire underwear and repeated pants-splitting, an eccentric baseball billionaire who wants his son to break Cy Young’s career wins record, whether they would pitch a big-league game in exchange for Trevor Bauer’s single-start salary, Nelson Cruz and the Hall of Fame character clause, what percentage of teams have a Hall of Famer, what Pirates fans can look forward to, whether time off in 2020 may help pitchers in the long run, whether Red Sox fans should heckle Manny Machado, and whether and why we’re seeing a golden age of shortstops, plus a Stat Blast about the Angels’ rotation and the other least productive positions on teams over the past five seasons.
Audio intro: Pulp, "Underwear"
Audio outro: Elvis Presley, "Patch it Up"
Link to Ben Clemens on the playoff odds
Link to 1936 Retrosheet pants-splitting play log
Link to 1939 pants-splitting story
Link to 1964 pants-splitting photo
Link to 1966 pants-splitting story
Link to 1974 pants-splitting story
Link to 1976 pants-splitting story
Link to 1988 pants-splitting story
Link to 1990 pants-splitting story
Link to Sam on being embarrassed in a game
Link to Allan Travers SABR bio
Link to Pedroia-Machado play
Link to Grant Brisbee on Pedroia and Machado
Link to Pedroia on the Machado slide
Link to Travis Sawchik on the golden age of shortstops
Link to Travis on the new shortstop power profile
Link to Ben on the Infante signing
Link to Stat Blast least productive positions data
Link to Lindsey Adler on MLB’s new policies
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| 0:00.0 | I couldn't stop it now There's no way to get out |
| 0:05.7 | It's standing for to me How the hell did you get here? |
| 0:11.6 | Send it, make it, and somebody else is ruined |
| 0:15.5 | I give my whole life to see it I just you |
| 0:23.3 | Still alone Only in your underwear |
| 0:29.5 | Come on, come on, come on now |
| 0:32.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1654 of Effectively Wild A Baseball Podcast |
| 0:37.8 | From Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:40.9 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, |
| 0:42.7 | joined by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs |
| 0:44.7 | Hello, how are you? |
| 0:46.3 | You ever have baseball on the brain so much |
| 0:49.0 | that you think something is about baseball when it isn't at all |
| 0:52.3 | Because I just had that experience today |
| 0:55.0 | because I had been reading some baseball stuff |
| 0:56.8 | and then I was reading some reviews of recent albums |
| 1:00.5 | Not necessarily music I'm interested in |
| 1:02.8 | but just sort of seeing what's out there |
| 1:04.7 | Now I was reading a review of an album called Popular Monetres |
| 1:08.4 | by this artist named Wobbly |
| 1:10.5 | I think his real name is John Lightaker |
| 1:12.7 | but he goes by Wobbly, he's like an experimental electronic musician |
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