Effectively Wild Episode 1757: Farewell to Rhubarb
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Meg Rowley and guest co-host Mike Ferrin of MLB Network Radio discuss his recent trip to Monument Valley before recapping the weekend’s ALDS and NLDS action and looking ahead to what might come next, including thoughts on the Giants’ approach to platooning, Cody Bellinger‘s season-long slump, AJ Pollock‘s past postseason woes, the Brewers offense, Eduardo Escobar, Milwaukee’s bullpen, Atlanta’s starters, Houston’s bats, Craig Kimbrel‘s role, Wander Franco, the Rays’ young starters, J.D. Martinez and Kiké Hernández providing thump in Boston’s lineup, and Alex Cora’s strategy to contain Tampa’s offense. Then Meg and Mike listener emails on spitting, the strike zone, a robo ump compromise, a creative proposal to score series rather than games, and rookies adjusting to the big leagues. Plus, a Statblast/Meet a Major Leaguer combo on player debuts versus and for the Kansas City Royals.
Audio intro: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, “Desert Song”
Audio outro: Modest Mouse, “Spitting Venom”
Link to Kevin Goldstein’s Red Sox/Rays ALDS Game 1 recap
Link to Jay Jaffe’s White Sox/Astros ALDS Game 2 recap
Link to Dan Szymborski’s Braves/Brewers NLDS Game 1 recap
Link to Brendan Gawlowski’s Red Sox/Rays ALDS Game 2 recap
Link to Eric Longenhagen’s Dodgers/Giants NLDS Game 1 recap
Link to Jon Tayler’s Braves/Brewers NLDS Game 2 recap
Link to Meg Rowley’s Dodgers/Giants NLDS Game 2 recap
Link to Fabian Ardaya on Cody Bellinger and AJ Pollock’s big night
Link to Michael Baumann on the Brewers rotation
Link to the ZiPS Game-by-Game Playoff Odds
Link to Player debut data
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:30.0 | Oh and welcome to episode 1757 of Refected In The Wild. |
| 0:37.4 | A fan graph space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm Meg Raleigh of Foundrafts and I am joined this morning by Friend of the Podcast, MLB Network |
| 0:46.0 | Radio and D-VAC Radio Star Mark Farron. |
| 0:49.4 | Mark Farron, wow. |
| 0:50.4 | Wow, that's a throwback. |
| 0:51.4 | Did you've been planning that one? |
| 0:53.4 | No, just very tired Mike. |
| 0:56.4 | Oh, that's a good one. |
| 1:00.4 | Well, it's a good way to start. |
| 1:01.6 | Good morning. |
| 1:02.6 | Good morning. |
| 1:03.6 | I made you wake up early to record this because some of us get up at 5 a.m. during the week |
| 1:07.1 | and so like we have no problem being up at Adam at night o'clock on a Sunday. |
| 1:11.7 | So here we are. |
| 1:12.9 | Here we are. |
| 1:13.9 | Well, I appreciate both your willingness to come on the show and your willingness to |
| 1:17.9 | stay and for loving your name. |
| 1:21.0 | It's okay. |
| 1:22.0 | You know, it's a long standing joke back from a podcast I used to host where everybody |
| 1:26.5 | called me Mark. |
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