Effectively Wild Episode 1707: Baseball-Reference Rewrites its Record Books
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s experience seeing Shohei Ohtani pitch, hit, and play right field in person, why balks can be so incomprehensible, the differing recent fortunes of the Angels and the Diamondbacks (and Albert Pujols), Jacob deGrom’s dominance and durability, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the big bats (and playoff fortunes) of the Blue Jays, and Baseball-Reference relaunching with the Negro Leagues reclassified as major leagues. After a break, they return (41:43) to talk more about the Baseball-Reference redesign, hearing first from researcher Larry Lester and Josh Gibson’s great-grandson Sean Gibson on the historic and personal significance of the new presentation of Negro Leagues stats and information, before bringing on Sports Reference president Sean Forman to explain how and why his company updated its display of Negro Leagues data, the ethical and practical considerations involved, and what will happen next.
Audio intro: The Minders, "Same Time, Same Place"
Audio interstitial: The Baseball Project, "They Played Baseball"
Audio outro: The Baseball Project, "Jackie’s Lament"
Link to highlights of Ohtani game
Link to Ohtani balks breakdown
Link to Ohtani balk face
Link to Jay Jaffe on Ohtani’s MVP case
Link to Sam on balks
Link to Jon Bois balk rules
Link to Blue Jays hard-hit-balls stat
Link to MLB.com on deGrom
Link to Dan Szymborski on the ERA record
Link to Episode 1560 (with Larry Lester)
Link to Episode 1626 (with Sean Gibson)
Link to Episode 1630 (with Ron Teasley)
Link to Larry Lester’s website
Link to the Josh Gibson Foundation
Link to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Link to the Seamheads Negro Leagues Database
Link to Ben on Negro Leagues reclassification last August
Link to Ben on Negro Leagues reclassification last December
Link to Shakeia Taylor on merging records
Link to James Wagner on the Baseball-Reference redesign
Link to the new Baseball-Reference Negro Leagues hub
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| 0:00.0 | I'll be the same time, same place, baby |
| 0:05.0 | I'm only good for one time, baby |
| 0:09.0 | You know I really hit me |
| 0:12.0 | You have to be the one |
| 0:15.0 | Oh yeah, too slow |
| 0:18.0 | I know the price of the way I taught |
| 0:22.0 | You shouldn't believe me |
| 0:24.0 | I spent too long coming |
| 0:27.0 | I never got to see |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 17-07 |
| 0:34.0 | Effectively wild, a fancraft space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh of fancrafts and I am joined as always by Ben Limberg of The Ring |
| 0:42.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:43.0 | Doing well, how are you? |
| 0:44.0 | I'm doing alright, melting, but alright |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, well I take it that you had a pretty exciting Friday night |
| 0:51.0 | It sounds like you were in the company of one, Shohei O'Tani |
| 0:55.0 | I mean not like in a weird, close way, but in a ballpark proximal sort of way |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, I was reflecting as I was sitting there about how you know because I grew up in Seattle |
| 1:08.0 | and I, the bulk of my, maybe not the bulk, but yeah I guess the bulk, the bulk of my game viewing |
| 1:13.0 | in-person baseball viewing has been at what is now T-Mobile Park and what was Safeco Field |
| 1:19.0 | and has frequently featured the angels |
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