Effectively Wild Episode 1701: Just Spitballing
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Luis Urías, the zombie runner, and walk-off wins, a few other aspects of the Will Craig/Javier Báez play, a new stat called the “Boner,” MLB and NFTs, Theo Epstein’s recent comments about making changes to the game, Shohei Ohtani’s player-page traffic and the future of two-way players, the Rays and Rich Hill, how the aftermath of the spitball ban relates to the future of foreign substance use, the definition of a “generational talent,” whether to credit teams or players for positioning, and whether MLB should ban in-game analytics use (and coaching visits), plus a Stat Blast about Trey Mancini and players who’ve accrued the highest-ever percentages of their teams’ runs and RBI.
Audio intro: The Replacements, "Gary’s Got a Boner"
Audio outro: David Newberry, "The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth"
Link to Brewers walk-off game story
Link to Craig’s comment about his boner
Link to Dan in Milwaukee’s field diagram
Link to story about Gehrig NFT
Link to story about Topps NFTs
Link to story about NFTs’ environmental impact
Link to Theo Epstein story
Link to Ben on Ohtani
Link to story about the spitball ban
Link to Pages from Baseball’s Past
Link to Servais “generational player” quote
Link to Tango on sports generations
Link to story about Joe West confiscating card
Link to “lasers in the outfield” story
Link to Stat Blast “Contribution Rate” data
Link to Ben Clemens on Lindor
Link to All-Star Game lawsuit story
Link to second All-Star Game lawsuit story
Link to listener David Newberry’s album
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| 0:00.0 | Love |
| 0:11.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1701 of Effectively Wild, a fan-grapzed baseball podcast brought |
| 0:35.1 | to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm Meg Relly of FanGraphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ring or Ben |
| 0:40.7 | How are you? |
| 0:41.7 | Doing alright, we just asked each other how our long weekends were, so should we maintain |
| 0:46.1 | the facade that we are just beginning our conversation on this podcast and say how was your |
| 0:50.3 | long weekend and then have that exchange again? |
| 0:52.5 | Sure, let's do it, Ben, how was your long weekend? |
| 0:55.0 | It was quite restful, thank you, how was yours? |
| 0:57.5 | It was the same, thank you so much for asking. |
| 1:00.2 | That's great. |
| 1:01.5 | Well, we will talk about some of the baseball that happened over the long weekend, a little |
| 1:06.6 | bit of news, a little bit of feedback from previous discussions, maybe a few emails that |
| 1:12.5 | were left over from last time. |
| 1:14.2 | I wanted to start by asking you about this little tidbit that I found in a game story |
| 1:19.5 | that was pointed out by Craig Calcutta and this is about the Brewers and Tigers game |
| 1:25.1 | on Monday, which ended in a walkoff win for the Brewers, they won 3-2 in 10 innings. |
| 1:31.5 | And so here's how the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Game Story starts. |
| 1:35.6 | How certain was Luis Aureus that he was going to win the game Monday, certain enough that |
| 1:40.0 | he told teammate Willie Adamis before he went ahead and did it. |
| 1:43.8 | Before the inning, when we were going to the dugout, he said, I'm going to walk it off. |
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