Effectively Wild Episode 1709: Number One With a Bullet
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up on previous discussions about player predictions and game postponements, answer listener emails about a sticky-stuff pitcher protest, the talent level in the College World Series, the wave as a player-distraction device, a six-year-old who roots for walks, and when the Astros will stop being booed (with an aside about foreign-substance use and the Hall of Fame), then unload a Stat Blast about the Twins and teams with the most and least lineup turnover after Opening Day, before closing with a “Meet a Major Leaguer” segment on Mariners outfielder Dillon Thomas and Monarchs two-way great Bullet Rogan.
Audio intro: Franz Ferdinand, "Bullet"
Audio outro: Franz Ferdinand, "Walk Away"
Link to article about Puckett’s called shot
Link to article about Nationals delay
Link to Jeff Passan on sticky stuff
Link to Ben on mid-PA pitching changes
Link to Ben on college player development
Link to info on distracting free-throw shooters
Link to post about swinging against deGrom
Link to tweet about swinging against deGrom
Link to story on the Astros being booed in Boston
Link to Baseball Prospectus IL Ledger
Link to Stat Blast data
Link to SABR on the Cobb replacement game
Link to news segment about Thomas
Link to video of Burrows throwing (up)
Link to Baseball-Reference Negro Leagues hub
Link to Bullet Rogan’s B-Ref page
Link to SABR on Rogan’s 1921 game
Link to MLB.com on Negro Leagues two-way stars
Link to THT on Negro Leagues two-way stars
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| 0:00.0 | I never get your fully evidence of an unknown baby |
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| 0:23.1 | I never get your full evidence of an unknown baby |
| 0:27.2 | Oh, and welcome to episode 1709 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought |
| 0:38.8 | to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Meg Rallye, a fan-graphed and I'm joined as always by Ben Lemberg of the Rare. |
| 0:44.1 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:45.1 | You went all right. |
| 0:46.1 | Shall we take a one-day break from foreign substances? |
| 0:48.9 | Can we talk about other things? |
| 0:50.9 | Is that possible? |
| 0:51.9 | I think that baseball is a beautiful and complicated game that continues to thrill and surprise me |
| 1:00.0 | every day. |
| 1:01.0 | So I imagine that we can manage it. |
| 1:04.0 | It might take a little work, but I think we can try. |
| 1:07.7 | I imagine it may come up again next week just possibly, but for today, at least let's |
| 1:13.6 | do an old school episode before we used to talk about foreign substances every day. |
| 1:18.5 | We will do some emails, we'll do a step-last, we'll meet some major leagers, we'll play |
| 1:23.3 | all the hits. |
| 1:24.3 | So just to start, a couple of follow-ups to things we talked about last week and readers |
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