Effectively Wild Episode 1741: Call Up the Cavalry
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Wander Franco coming into his own, Kevin Newman’s steep offensive falloff post-spring training, a strikeout milestone for Robbie Ray, the Kendall Graveman–Abraham Toro trade and promotions/extensions for the Mariners’ Jerry Dipoto and Scott Servais, the new-and-improved Blake Snell, Austin Adams’ historic hit-by-pitch pace, Cardinals radio broadcaster Mike Shannon discovering and attempting to explain NFTs on the air, and the difference between bad and good Mets missteps. Then (41:21) they bring on FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen to discuss September roster expansion, touching on the developmental implications of going from 40-man to 28-man rosters, the most promising prospects who could debut this month and impact pennant races or the playoffs (including Joe Ryan, Nate Pearson, Shane Baz, and Hunter Greene), the remaking of Padres pitcher MacKenzie Gore, post-deadline desperation, the Nationals’ Josiah Gray, Keibert Ruiz, and Riley Adams, the Royals’ Nicky Lopez and Bobby Witt Jr., and other notable names.
Audio intro: Frank Sinatra, "September in the Rain"
Audio interstitial: Frank Sinatra, "September Song"
Audio outro: Frazey Ford, "September Fields"
Link to Franco streak article
Link to Dan Szymborski on Franco
Link to article on Newman’s spring
Link to spring training stats study
Link to B-Ref career K/9 leaderboard
Link to article about Snell’s reinvention
Link to article about Adams
Link to article on Shannon and NFTs
Link to Zack Scott news
Link to roster expansion explainer
Link to list of September 1 callups
Link to Gore mechanics video
Link to Eric on AL impact pitchers
Link to Carmen Ciardiello on Lopez
Link to Adam’s EW Wiki post
Link to EW Wiki
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Link to EW emails database
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The leaves of brown came tumbling down, remember |
| 0:08.0 | In September, in rain |
| 0:17.0 | The sun went out just like a diamond ember |
| 0:24.0 | That September, in rain |
| 0:32.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1741 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.0 | a fan-grab spaceball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh, fan-grapes and I am joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer |
| 0:43.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:44.0 | I am doing better now that you're back, hello, welcome back |
| 0:47.0 | Thank you, it's nice to be back |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, I've missed banter |
| 0:51.0 | It's nice to talk to guests and interesting people on the pod, but banter is just the same |
| 0:57.0 | I tried to banter by myself and it just doesn't work quite as well |
| 1:00.0 | I thought of like trying to do voices maybe just play multiple parts or something |
| 1:06.0 | No |
| 1:07.0 | But I opted not to do that, but the monologue it's just not quite as engaging as the banter |
| 1:12.0 | No, I've heard that folks who process events in their lives out loud |
| 1:18.0 | sort of regretless of whether or not there are other people there |
| 1:21.0 | Right, whose means of process is vocalization |
| 1:25.0 | I guess do better in crisis situations |
| 1:28.0 | I don't remember where I heard that ban |
| 1:30.0 | I'm gonna do what my mom does and say I think I heard that on NPR |
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