Effectively Wild Episode 1695: The Better Angels of Our Nature
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Dodgers signing Albert Pujols and what the rest of his season could look like, Kevin Pillar’s broken nose and the ongoing HBP epidemic, Shohei Ohtani’s latest heroics (and modeling video) and whether he can become a face of baseball and a crossover star, MLB’s rising injury rate, Huascar Ynoa’s self-inflicted fracture (and whether teams should invest in dugout/tunnel padding), Yermín Mercedes hitting a homer off of Willians Astudillo and igniting a tired unwritten rules debate, the Twins as potential sellers, Yasmani Grandal’s wild slash line, Nick Castellanos getting revenge on Rob Manfred, and Kyle Schwarber enjoying a mid-game snack, plus a flopping vs. framing follow-up and postscripts about Mike Trout’s injury and Tony La Russa.
Audio intro: Jimi Hendrix, "Crosstown Traffic"
Audio outro: Minor Threat, "In My Eyes"
Link to Jay Jaffe on the Pujols signing
Link to Jay on the Mets’ many injuries
Link to combined WAR leaderboard
Link to MLB.com on Ohtani’s homers
Link to video of Ohtani’s oppo homer
Link to video of Ohtani’s pulled homer
Link to Ohtani’s Hugo Boss video
Link to Ohtani’s Hugo Boss page
Link to tweet about the Angels
Link to video of Mercedes homer
Link to slowest pitches hit for homers
Link to video of Andrus obstruction play
Link to postgame Castellanos interview
Link to Bryant/Schwarber Twix video
Link to video of Trout injury
Link to story about Trout injury
Link to The Onion on Ohtani
Link to Ben on Tatis and unwritten rules
Link to Sox Machine on La Russa
Link to The Athletic on La Russa
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| 0:00.0 | I can see you had your fun but a dollar can't you see my singles turn green to red and with you I can see a trappy cam straight up ahead |
| 0:11.0 | You're just like |
| 0:14.0 | So hard to get through you |
| 0:18.0 | Try to get run over you |
| 0:22.0 | What do they do with slowing down? |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1695 on the expected blue wild of handcraft's baseball podcast |
| 0:36.0 | Biosphere on supporters on McRally for androfs and I'm joined as always by Ben |
| 0:40.0 | Remember of the Rainer but how are you doing pretty well? |
| 0:43.0 | Since the last time we spoke I think we've gotten at least three tweets requesting emergency podcast and all for different reasons |
| 0:51.0 | Emergency podcast for the Dodgers citing pools emergency podcast for winter studio allowing a home run on the mound and emergency podcast for |
| 1:03.0 | Show Hay O'Tani just being show Hay O'Tani in general but also hitting a couple of home runs on pitches in very different locations |
| 1:10.0 | I'm sure that we will touch on all of these things today, but they can't all be emergency |
| 1:15.0 | No, they can't but you know, I think that people well, they have not necessarily honed in on the specific events that are going to merit an emergency podcast |
| 1:26.0 | I feel like people have a good sense of the general like uvra, you know |
| 1:30.0 | Yes, it's just that sometimes we have to not pod because we have to sleep or eat food or |
| 1:38.0 | Watch baseball that's the thing it's like during the season there's all the space balls watch band. Yeah, I know |
| 1:45.0 | It's not really hard to do other stuff because there's all this baseball so yeah |
| 1:49.0 | Well the good news is that people want to hear us talk about stuff apparently so that's good |
| 1:54.0 | They see something happen and they want to hear what all Mac and Ben have to say about it |
| 1:59.0 | So they might have to wait a few days, but we'll get there. So we can talk about those things now |
| 2:04.0 | I suppose maybe we should start with the Dodgers new cleanup hitter Albert Poole's |
| 2:09.0 | Which is not something I saw coming last time we talked about Poole's last week when he was designated for assignment by the angels |
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