Effectively Wild Episode 1843: I Think You Should Leave
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley react to MLB’s decision to suspend Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer for an unprecedented 324 games, then (22:25) discuss Justin Verlander and Ronald Acuña Jr. looking like their old selves and pitcher Tucker Davidson’s critiques of the minor league pitch clock before answering listener emails about the Cardinals and how to evaluate teams whose pitching approaches seem out of step with the times, skeuomorphs and baseball terminology of uncertain origin, whether batters should be able to decline intentional walks (and whether they would even if they could), when “modern baseball” begins, and more.
Audio intro: Gladys Knight & The Pips, “Go Away, Stay Away”
Audio outro: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, “Modern Mystery”
Link to ESPN’s news story about Bauer
CW // Link to latest WaPo report about Bauer
Link to MLB DV and sexual assault policy
Link to video of Acuña’s return
Link to Davidson thread
Link to Ben on pitch clocks
Link to Baseball America on new pitch clock
Link to Jeff Passan on new pitch clock
Link to MLB.com story on baseball terms
Link to “in the hole” explainer
Link to “around the horn” explainer
Link to Joe Posnanski on declining IBBs
Link to Lindsey Adler on IKF
Link to Matthews bat flip video
Link to Posnanski on new HoF changes
Link to Jay Jaffe on new HoF changes
Link to Marvel’s sliding timescale
Link to Rob Mains on Mets HBPs
Link to golf story about DECADE
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| 0:00.0 | Tae ammunition |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1843 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:36.7 | FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I'm Ben Mimberg of The Ringer, |
| 0:41.0 | joined as always by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. Hello Meg. Hello. So we are recording on |
| 0:46.1 | Friday afternoon and shortly before we started here. Some news broke about |
| 0:51.1 | Trevor Bauer and it is not the kind of news about Bauer that has been breaking |
| 0:55.7 | at periodic increments for the past many, many months, which is about his |
| 1:00.9 | administrative leave being extended. In this case it is harder news, it is more |
| 1:06.0 | definitive news. Can't call it a resolution I would think, but it is at least an |
| 1:11.4 | announcement of a suspension. So let's have the ceremonial reading of statements |
| 1:17.5 | here. We have a statement from MLB. We have a statement from the Dodgers. We have a |
| 1:21.3 | statement from Bauer and that should bring everyone up to speed and then we |
| 1:25.4 | can discuss this. So the press release that we received from MLB says Dodgers |
| 1:30.4 | pitcher Bauer Disciplined Commissioner Robert Demen for Junior announced today |
| 1:34.5 | that following an extensive investigation by MLB's Department of Investigations |
| 1:39.3 | Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has received a suspension for 324 |
| 1:44.8 | championship season games representing two full seasons without pay effective |
| 1:50.7 | today for violating Major League Baseball's Joint Domestic Violence Sexual Assault and |
| 1:55.7 | Child Abuse Policy. In accordance with the terms of the policy, the Commissioner's |
| 2:00.3 | office will not issue any further statements at this point in time. However, there |
| 2:05.4 | were some further statements, one of which was by Bauer's team the Dodgers, who said |
| 2:10.4 | today we were informed that MLB has concluded its investigation into allegations |
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