Effectively Wild Episode 1683: The Unlikely Leadoff Man
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the brief lifespan of the soccer Super League, the gift of the Padres-Dodgers rivalry and Blake Snell vs. Joe Musgrove, position-player-pitching overload and the pitching performance of Willians Astudillo, whether the slow-starting Yankees are really doomed, the retirement of Jay Bruce, the end of Tim Locastro’s stolen-base success streak (and the unlikely basestealing prowess of an ancient Albert Pujols), player switcheroos in the minor leagues, whether MLB would air replay review deliberations, the celebration of Jean Segura’s 200th career double, the MLB return of Sean Kazmar Jr., the possibly precedent-setting NPB debut of Carter Stewart, and more, plus a Stat Blast about the most common and uncommon combinations of fielding position and lineup position.
Audio intro: Belly, "Super-Connected"
Audio outro: Hippo Campus, "Way it Goes"
Link to The Athletic on the Super League
Link to Ingenuity helicopter news
Link to Mookie catch video
Link to Emma Baccellieri on position players pitching
Link to video of Astudillo pitching
Link to Astudillo’s Instagram post
Link to video of Mercedes pitching
Link to video of Locastro caught stealing
Link to story about Pujols stealing third
Link to Lindsey Adler on the Yankees and Yankees fans
Link to Jay Jaffe on the Yankees
Link to Brendan Gawlowski on Bruce’s retirement
Link to video of Segura’s celebration
Link to video of Santana’s celebration
Link to story about Kazmar’s comeback
Link to another story about Kazmar’s comeback
Link to story about Stewart’s debut
Link to Stat Blast data
Link to 1900-2020 lineup spot chart
Link to 2015-2020 lineup spot chart
Link to DH era lineup spot chart GIF
Link to Trout’s hard-hit homer
Link to Ohtani return game story
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| 0:00.0 | I used to forget the next day. |
| 0:07.0 | I used to forget the next day now. |
| 0:12.0 | I've been in on a car. |
| 0:19.0 | For your clothes, you've been on all the way. |
| 0:23.0 | And I tell you to keep the door open. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1683 of Effectively Wild of the Baseball Podcast from Fangrass |
| 0:32.5 | presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:34.5 | I am Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of Fangrass Lomack. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello. |
| 0:40.0 | A lot has happened since we last spoke. |
| 0:42.0 | The Super League seemingly came and went just in the span of a few days. |
| 0:46.0 | Hadn't heard of the Super League last time we spoke. |
| 0:49.0 | Now I guess I never needed to hear it necessarily. |
| 0:52.0 | I felt like I had just about figured out what it was. |
| 0:55.0 | And now maybe that effort was wasted. |
| 0:58.0 | So for a person, not me, who doesn't understand what the Super League was and maybe was sprawled out on her couch, recovering from her second COVID dose. |
| 1:08.0 | But again, not me, just a hypothetical person who meets that description. |
| 1:11.0 | Is this a thing that we need to know about from a baseball perspective? |
| 1:14.0 | No, although I was anticipating some emails. |
| 1:17.0 | And I think it came and went if it has in fact gone so quickly that there wasn't even time for people to send us hypotheticals about what would happen if the Yankees and the Red Sox and the Dodgers and the Cubs decided to split up and form their own Super MLB League. |
| 1:33.0 | But from what I can glean MLB basically already is a Super League, more or less. |
| 1:38.0 | The structure is kind of what the Super League was going for in a lot of ways, but no, it does not seem like this is incredibly relevant to effectively wild right now. |
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