Effectively Wild Episode 1854: Comedy of Errors
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the apparent end of Mike Trout’s long-lasting SuperPretzel sponsorship, Willians Astudillo’s return to the majors, the Phillies’ fielding and a seeming surfeit of amusingly bad defensive plays across the league, the arrival of overall no. 1 prospect (and Orioles catcher) Adley Rutschman and how to tell when a prospect is really ready, the postponement of the 13-pitcher limit, the Yankees signing Matt Carpenter, different facial hair changing players’ appearances, the fallout from Josh Donaldson calling Tim Anderson “Jackie,” and Anderson’s great start to the season, plus a few followups.
Audio intro: Great Lakes, “End of an Error”
Audio outro: Joel Plaskett, “Tim”
Link to news about J&J and Dippin’ Dots
Link to 2012 SuperPretzel press release
Link to SuperPretzel website
Link to “I’m a Mac” actor-switch story
Link to EW SuperPretzel episode
Link to latest Phillies flub
Link to Craig Goldstein on the Phillies
Link to earlier episode about bad defense
Link to Nats’ two-run pickoff attempt
Link to study on slippery baseballs
Link to team defensive efficiency
Link to BP on scouting Rutschman
Link to Craig on the Rutschman callup
Link to Rutschman callup video
Link to Rodríguez callup video
Link to Ben on the record prospect crop
Link to 13-pitcher-limit news
Link to Ken Rosenthal on Carpenter
Link to 2019 Tim Anderson SI story
Link to James Fegan on Anderson
Link to Anderson game story
Link to Anderson’s subsequent comments
Link to Donaldson statement
Link to 2016 Donaldson profile
Link to Judge’s comments
Link to Cashman on Donaldson
Link to Bradford’s interview
Link to Bradford’s podcast
Link to article on Anderson’s swing decisions
Link to FiveThirtyEight forecasts page
Link to Tom Tango on regression mistakes
Link to Phil Birnbaum on regression mistakes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I will make my mistake again |
| 0:07.0 | I will make my mistake again |
| 0:15.0 | I found myself out there |
| 0:19.0 | I see you still |
| 0:22.0 | I will make my mistake again |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1854 of Effectively Wild, a fan graph's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:34.0 | I'm a gravity of fan graphs and I'm doing to always pay that number of the winner, and how are you? |
| 0:39.0 | Well, I'm doing okay, but I do have one concern |
| 0:43.0 | and it doesn't come close to comparing to losing Roger Angel last week |
| 0:47.0 | but I recently learned of the apparent passing of another baseball institution |
| 0:53.0 | which has been somewhat important to the history of this podcast |
| 0:57.0 | Meg, I am working to confirm |
| 0:59.0 | but I see no indication that Mike Trout is still a spokesperson for SuperPretzel |
| 1:05.0 | What? |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, I should have braced you for this news |
| 1:09.0 | I know you're sitting down because we were recording a posh test |
| 1:13.0 | but I am glad that you are because this probably comes as a shock |
| 1:17.0 | I know it did to me |
| 1:19.0 | and I will tell you how I found out about this or I think I found out about it |
| 1:23.0 | I saw some news that J&J snack foods which owns SuperPretzel had agreed to buy dip and dots |
| 1:31.0 | if you were wondering how much dip and dots is worth apparently $222 million |
| 1:35.0 | So J&J has added dip and dots to their portfolio |
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