Effectively Wild Episode 1756: Ichabod Crane Comes to Bat
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Meg Rowley and guest co-host Eric Longenhagen banter about Walker Buehler’s unusual approach to opening beers and their own past dental emergencies before recapping the AL Wild Card game. They consider what went wrong for the Yankees, and assess the Red Sox’s good starters, potent lineup, and shaky defense, as well as Nick Pivetta and Garrett Richards. Next they shift to the Red Sox/Rays ALDS matchup and consider the state of Tampa Bay’s pitching, the Rays’ talented hitters, and whether playoff experience (or a lack thereof) will matter for Tampa’s young starters. After that it’s on to the Astros and White Sox, featuring an embarrassment of good hitters including Kyle Tucker and Luis Robert, plus Houston’s talented pitching and Chicago’s dominant bullpen. Then they wrap up with thoughts on the NL Wild Card and play a game of stumpo with Arizona Fall League rosters.
Audio intro: Death Cab for Cutie, “Crooked Teeth”
Audio outro: The Decemberists, “The Sporting Life”
The FanGraphs Prospects twitter account
Arizona Fall League rosters
Link to Walker Buehler’s tweet about opening twist-off beers with his teeth
Link to Ben Clemens’ NL Wild Card game recap
Link to Dan Szymborski’s Red Sox/Rays ALDS Preview
Link to Jake Mailhot’s White Sox/Astros ALDS Preview
Link to Ben’s White Sox/Astros ALDS Game 1 Recap
Link to Jay Jaffe’s piece on Gerrit Cole
Link to Ben on the math behind pulling Nathan Eovaldi
Link to the FanGraphs staff playoff predictions
Link to Effectively Wild Episode 1454, Eddie Robinson’s first EW appearance
Link to Effectively Wild Episode 1629, Eddie Robinson’s second EW appearance
Link to Patrick Dubuque’s playoff proposal
Claire Smith on Dusty Baker
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| 0:00.0 | inserts |
| 0:10.5 | IINO�� |
| 0:12.4 | DETRADGERS aren't |
| 0:15.9 | easy |
| 0:16.0 | they're |
| 0:16.8 | made |
| 0:17.5 | of |
| 0:21.0 | bang |
| 0:22.8 | gosh |
| 0:23.9 | Fernan |
| 0:27.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 1756 of Effectively Wild, a fancraft baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm Meg Rally of Fancrafts and I am joined today by Eric Long and Hagen, also a fancrafts or lead prospect analyst Eric Hower-Yoh. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm great. I've met the field like every day, almost a whole day, which is the whole reason I do the job I do. |
| 1:04.1 | And so I'm great. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, we will talk a little bit toward the back half of this episode about the Arizona Fall League, |
| 1:11.6 | yet another field for you to make your way to in the coming months. |
| 1:15.5 | But before we do that, we are going to talk a bit about the the happenings in the wild card round, |
| 1:21.8 | as a way to sort of start talking about the division series. As we are recording this on Thursday morning, |
| 1:28.6 | we are mere hours away from the start of the White Socks and Astros ALDS. |
| 1:34.8 | We'll get Tampa and Boston a little later in the afternoon. |
| 1:38.6 | We will probably spend the bulk of our time talking about the AL side of things and tackle the NL in a later episode. |
| 1:47.0 | But before we do that, I don't know if you saw this. Did you see Walker Bueller opening twist beers with his teeth? |
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