Effectively Wild Episode 1666: The Number of the Banana
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the new baseball format embraced by the Savannah Bananas, the experimental rules MLB is imposing at various levels of the minor leagues in 2021, and whether they would want to live in a ballpark (like a man who claims to have lived for three years in Veterans Stadium), then answer listener emails about whether this season’s spring training stats are more or less meaningless than usual, the ideal photo to represent baseball on the sport’s Wikipedia page, the definition of pitchability, whether the public’s perception of player mega-contracts has changed, whether this is the “tanking era” or the “superteam era,” and whether tanking is as bad as it’s cracked up to be, plus a Stat Blast about teams that scored the highest percentage of their total runs in one game.
Audio intro: Louis Prima, "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
Audio outro: Iron Maiden, "The Number of the Beast"
Link to story about the Bananas
Link to video about the Bananas
Link to MiLB rules changes announcement
Link to Jayson Stark on the new rules
Link to story about living in Veterans Stadium
Link to The Secret Apartment
Link to Dan Rosenheck on spring training stats
Link to Dan’s presentation on spring training stats
Link to Heyward photo from Wikipedia
Link to Alex Chamberlain on Hendricks
Link to A-Rod contract facts
Link to Zach Kram on the superteam era
Link to Ben on competitive balance and tanking
Link to Craig Edwards on competitive balance and tanking
Link to Craig on the 2019 competitive balance problem
Link to Stat Blast data
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh yes, we have no bananas. |
| 0:05.0 | We have no bananas today. |
| 0:09.0 | We've got string beans and onions and big juicy lemons |
| 0:14.0 | and all kinds of fruit and say. |
| 0:18.0 | We've got an old fashioned tomato. |
| 0:23.0 | A long island potato. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh yes, we have no bananas. |
| 0:32.0 | We have no bananas today. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1666 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:41.0 | a baseball podcast from Bambraffs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of Bambraffs, hello Meg. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello, pot of the bees. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:58.0 | We are taking a break from our endless season preview series today to do some emails |
| 1:02.0 | and just reviewing our recent emails to pick some for the show. |
| 1:06.0 | I was struck yet again by how many of them are about changing baseball |
| 1:10.0 | and how different baseball would be if it were different. |
| 1:14.0 | It's really a high percentage of the questions we get, |
| 1:18.0 | which I guess is not surprising because we do kind of cater to that interest |
| 1:22.0 | and we don't get a lot of questions about well, what if baseball were exactly the same |
| 1:26.0 | and nothing changed? |
| 1:28.0 | How would it be? We already know. |
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