Effectively Wild Episode 1761: Those Wacky, Tacky Balls
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Meg Rowley and guest co-host Grant Brisbee catch up on some non-postseaosn news, including Grant’s elbow injury, MLB’s decision to provide housing for minor leaguers, and Rob Arthur’s research suggesting spin rate and pitch movement have recovered after cratering in light of sticky stuff enforcement, then banter about Laz Diaz’s strike zone in Game 4 of the ALCS and the use of starting pitchers in the playoffs. Then they turn their attention to the San Francisco Giants, including the team’s wildly successful 2021 and less successful postseason run, before discussing where the Giants go from here. Finally, Grant offers some advice to the remaining playoff teams on how to defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers and shares who he’s rooting for now that the Giants are out of the postseason.
Audio intro: American Music Club, “All the Lost Souls Welcome You to San Francisco”
Audio outro: Woody Guthrie, “Dusty Old Dust”
Link to Grant’s podcast, Baggs & Brisbee
Link to the latest episode of Grant’s other podcast, Baseball Barista
Link to Jeff Passan on MLB’s decision to provide housing for minor leaguers
Link to Russell Carleton on minor leaguer housing
Link to Evan Drellich on minor leaguer housing
Link to Rob Arthur on the return of spin rate post-sticky stuff enforcement
Link to Grant on the Giants’ NLDS Game 5 loss
Link to Grant on where the pain of the end of the 2021 season ranks among past Giants losses
Link to Grant on the five best developments of the 2021 Giants season
Link to David Laurila’s ALCS Game 4 recap
Link to Kevin Goldstein’s NLCS Game 3 recap
Link to Jay Jaffe’s piece on the incredible shrinking postseason starter
Link to Jay’s piece on the long shadow of the Mookie Betts trade
Link to Brendan Gawlowski on Cody Bellinger’s postseason adjustments
Link to Ben Clemens’ NLDS manager report cards
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a gold my soul went missing looking for a life no one but one |
| 0:12.0 | Now it stumbles like the smile of a fool looking to the sky for shelter from the storm |
| 0:24.0 | All the lost souls welcome you to San Francisco |
| 0:34.0 | A city that was built by a truck |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1761 of Effectively Wild, a fancraft spaceball podcast |
| 0:45.0 | brought to you by our Patreon supporters on MacRelly Fangrafts |
| 0:48.0 | and I am joined with this episode by Grant Brisbane |
| 0:51.0 | The athletic, the host of bags and Brisbane as well as the baseball barista podcast, just a mess a podcast |
| 0:58.0 | It's Grant Brisbane, Grant how are you? |
| 1:00.0 | I'm doing well, I'm doing very well how are you? |
| 1:02.0 | I'm doing okay, I have two functioning elbows so I feel like I am up on you ever so slightly |
| 1:11.0 | We're going to talk giants in the back half of this episode |
| 1:15.0 | You're going to offer some advice to would be opponents of the Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1:20.0 | But before we do that we have some banter and I think we have to start Grant |
| 1:25.0 | You recently won on the Android list what's going on with your elbow man? |
| 1:29.0 | I did it is a you know it's a sports injury it is a it's based in athletics |
| 1:34.0 | So what had happened was I was sitting calmly watching the giants and Dodgers play in game three of the National League Division series |
| 1:43.0 | I stood up when Gavin Lux hits a rocket into the wind with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning |
| 1:51.0 | I it looked like it was a home run it probably should have been a home run if not for the wind |
| 1:56.0 | So I stood up and then as it kind of approached the fence and you saw Stephen Dugger settle under it |
| 2:03.0 | I ran to the TV to kind of get a better look not like a hooray but more just like |
| 2:08.0 | Baseball moment this is cool and as I was doing it my feet just slipped out from under me and I landed on my elbow |
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