Effectively Wild Episode 1843: I Think You Should Leave

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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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 […]

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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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