Effectively Wild Episode 1743: On the Bubble
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mike Yastrzemski, “bubble guts,” and the right way for a manager to publicize a player’s intestinal distress, then follow up on Miguel Cabrera and the factors that influence players’ career ratios of pitchers homered off of to total home runs, review the state of the standings, discuss the Cubs’ unexpected contributions from Frank Schwindel and Rafael Ortega, and answer listener emails about Patrick Wisdom and the difference between building blocks and fun flashes in the pan, Joey Gallo and the decline of the 0-for-4 game with no strikeouts or walks, the advent and spread of intentional balks, a potential systemic disadvantage to moving the mound back, and MLB (briefly) considering the idea of allowing fans to throw home run balls back and keep them in play, plus (1:05:15) two Stat Blasts about Ryan Lavarnway and the longest trip to 162 games played, and the Rays and the lowest leading WAR on a division winner.
Audio intro: The Jayhawks, "Living in a Bubble"
Audio outro: Built to Spill, "Conventional Wisdom"
Link to Kapler’s comment on Yaz
Link to data on pitcher-to-home-run ratios
Link to CBS Sports on the Cubs’ winning streak
Link to Cubs Insider on Schwindel
Link to Sahadev Sharma on Schwindel
Link to Rustin Dodd on Schwindel in 2018
Link to Ashley MacLennan on lovable “bad” players
Link to 1990 article on Kevin Maas
Link to Devan on Wisdom
Link to Stathead on the all-contact 0-for-4
Link to article on Gallo’s “reset”
Link to 2019 story on the intentional balk
Link to video of Jansen’s intentional balk
Link to story on the latest intentional balks
Link to post on Kimbrel’s intentional balk
Link to mention of throwing home run balls back
Link to previous EW convo about balls in stands
Link to Lavarnway Stat Blast data
Link to 2011 post on Lavarnway’s promotion
Link to Rays/WAR leaders Stat Blast data
Link to SABR on DiMaggio’s ’49 comeback
Link to Andy McCullough on the Rays
Link to Zach Kram on the Rays
Link to ESPN on the Rays in 2020
Link to story on the Rays’ saves record
Link to article about deGrom’s UCL sprain
Link to Ben on the Soto Shuffle
Link to post on EW Wiki Chrome extension
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I am a Sampy C&C and now I'm a new cycle star |
| 0:05.2 | If you don't think I need to take it again |
| 0:12.2 | Living in a bubble, you're not a time |
| 0:16.2 | I stick my head out once a while |
| 0:20.2 | Life is full of trouble, where am I to |
| 0:24.4 | Just another day of the zimba |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1743 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:32.0 | A fan-graft space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-grafts and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberger of the Ringer |
| 0:39.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:40.0 | I'm doing alright, I have a little bit of banter about intestinal distress |
| 0:43.0 | Oh no! |
| 0:45.0 | Not mine and... |
| 0:47.0 | Well that's good |
| 0:48.0 | Paramon Marquez is... |
| 0:50.0 | I just wanted to mention this as a contrast to the Hermon Marquez experience |
| 0:54.0 | When we talked about that and Bud Black, this was maybe a few weeks ago |
| 0:58.0 | Bud Black just came out and told the world that Hermon Marquez had left the game early |
| 1:02.0 | Because he had diarrhea and we talked about whether that was the proper etiquette for a manager to just come right out and announce that so explicitly |
| 1:11.0 | And there was sort of an analogous situation this week where |
| 1:15.0 | Microstremski, he had a good game on Sunday for the Giants in the rubber game of that big Dodgers Giants series |
| 1:22.0 | We talked about last time and Yaz went two for three with a double and a walk on Sunday |
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