Effectively Wild Episode 1802: EW, David
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the election of David Ortiz, the ballot banishments of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Curt Schilling, and the rest of the Hall of Fame voting results (including Scott Rolen’s auspicious surge), react to reports about the latest labor talks (with an emphasis on the problems with using public WAR metrics to determine pre-arbitration bonuses), wonder why the Giants avoided the Kevin Gausman market, marvel at the virtues of throwing fastballs right down the middle, and discuss two sudden-death scenarios: the Frontier League’s new extra-innings solution, and an NFL-inspired one-game-playoffs plan.
Audio intro: Another Michael, “Big Pop”
Audio outro: John Cale, “Sudden Death”
Link to 2022 HoF voting results
Link to 2021 HoF voting results
Link to Jay Jaffe on the results
Link to Jason Sardell’s projections
Link to projections comparison
Link to BBHOF Tracker
Link to Emma on the Tracker
Link to Passan on Bonds
Link to Michael Baumann on PED players
Link to data on new votes for Bonds/Clemens
Link to Ben on abstaining from voting
Link to January 24 MLBTR labor update
Link to January 25 MLBTR labor update
Link to later January 25 MLBTR update
Link to MLBTR on canceling games
Link to Sean Forman WAR thread
Link to Jonathan Judge article
Link to Russell Carleton on WAR use
Link to Ben on ever-evolving WAR
Link to Gausman report
Link to Forbes franchise valuations
Link to Justin Choi on fastballs
Link to Frontier League announcement
Link to J.J. Cooper on the Frontier League
Link to Tango’s Frontier League tweet
Link to FiveThirtyEight on the NFL weekend
Link to Neil Paine on true talent
Link to Michael Lopez on playoff randomness
Link to Joe Sheehan’s playoff proposal
Link to Ben on Schilling
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| 0:00.0 | Big Pop, the lemon drops have been the whole way through |
| 0:07.0 | Dip it down, circus got, I've got something crazy to tell you |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah, I've been hoping, bringing you something to you |
| 0:22.0 | You're an amazing artist, thank you |
| 0:31.0 | No one else starts into a dream with drummers |
| 0:36.0 | Get my wittin' tube, I can't stop, get it in |
| 0:40.0 | I know it's not too much for you |
| 0:43.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1802 of Effective Bewild |
| 0:46.0 | A fancraft space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:49.0 | I'm A.Reli of Angrafs and I am joined as always by Ben Limberger of the Ringer |
| 0:53.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:54.0 | I'm excited for the ultimate rarity this winter, which is a pretty Newsy episode |
| 0:59.0 | We actually have some stuff to discuss |
| 1:02.0 | We don't have to come up with wild and creative topics |
| 1:06.0 | I mean, maybe there's still be creative |
| 1:08.0 | But news has actually supplied some potential topics for us today |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, we got news, we'll try to some takes about the news |
| 1:15.0 | News? |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, we waited, we're recording here on Tuesday evening |
| 1:20.0 | because we wanted to wait for the official unveiling of the BBWA Hall of Fame ballot results |
| 1:27.0 | And as it turns out, David Ortiz is a first ballot Hall of Famer |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah |
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