Effectively Wild Episode 1851: You Say Tyler, I Say Taylor
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the rabidity of opossums and Eugenio Suárez‘s keepie-uppie skills, then discuss the White Sox offense and Tony La Russa’s rationale for batting Andrew Vaughn ninth, Max Scherzer’s oblique injury, and the possibility of a Juan Soto trade, before meeting major leaguers (53:30) Logan Gillaspie (Orioles) and Brandon Hughes (Cubs), and Stat Blasting (1:06:26) about the rapid Tyler/Taylor takeover of MLB player names.
Audio intro: We Are Scientists, “I Don’t Bite”
Audio outro: Kiwi Jr., “Tyler”
Link to the Human Society on opossums
Link to Wildlife Habitat Council on opossums
Link to Opossum Society FAQ
Link to press-box opossum pic
Link to story about press-box opossum
Link to possum vs. opossum definitions
Link to Reddit thread on Suárez
Link to La Russa comment on Vaughn
Link to Tango’s response
Link to Ben on batting pitchers eighth
Link to Jeremy Frank on Garcia
Link to Frank on Garcia again
Link to Scherzer news
Link to deGrom update
Link to Olney on Soto
Link to report on Soto extension offer
Link to Mark Feinsand on trade candidates
Link to video of Gillaspie’s debut
Link to MASN on Gillaspie’s debut
Link to Camden Chat on Gillaspie
Link to 2018 Gillaspie signing story
Link to FB group thread on Gillaspie
Link to Ben on the Salina Stockade
Link to The Only Rule Is it Has to Work
Link to story on Hughes’s debut
Link to video of Hughes’s debut
Link to Hughes fun fact
Link to Longenhagen on Hughes
Link to Tyler Holton story
Link to Stat Blast data on player names
Link to SSA baby names site
Link to The Bob Emergency, Part 1
Link to The Bob Emergency, Part II
Link to Tyler Kepner on Tylers
Link to Stathead on worst second-half tOPS+
Link to Stathead on second-half ERA rises
Link to 1995 article on Green, P. 1
Link to 1995 article on Green, P. 2
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't fight but you can't believe it |
| 0:05.8 | You can't believe it |
| 0:08.1 | I don't fight but you can't believe it |
| 0:12.9 | You can't believe it |
| 0:16.9 | I don't fight but you can't believe it |
| 0:21.4 | You can't believe it |
| 0:24.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 151 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:28.8 | the occasional podcast of the band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:32.9 | I am Ben Humberg, Dr. Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of Band graphs, a low-meg. |
| 0:36.8 | Hello. |
| 0:37.7 | Before we proceed any further, we should put people's minds at ease. |
| 0:41.7 | Opossums very rarely carry rabies. |
| 0:44.6 | It's so good to know. |
| 0:47.2 | You know? |
| 0:47.7 | It is good to know. |
| 0:48.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.9 | Just in case anyone was waiting with Bated Breath since the end of our last episode, |
| 0:53.0 | that's how we'll start this baseball podcast by talking about |
| 0:56.2 | opossums very rarely carrying rabies. |
| 0:58.6 | Sometimes I think the podcast needs a previously on segment. |
| 1:02.8 | So someone would say, last time on Effectively Wild, |
| 1:06.9 | and then there'd be a clip of me mentioning that in addition to a pack of feral cats, |
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