Effectively Wild Episode 1861: I’m Not Maddon, I’m Just Disappointed
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2022
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Joe Maddon’s firing, the impact and end of the Angels’ 14-game losing streak, and whether the Angels or Phillies are in a worse position for the future, Tony La Russa’s intentional walk on a 1-2 count, whether the weather and the humidor can explain MLB’s sudden upticks in fly-ball distance and home-run rate, the testing of experimental, legalized sticky stuff in the minor leagues, Hunter Greene’s rain-shortened run at a Statcast no-hitter, how the Cardinals and Rays played a nine-inning game in less than two hours, Joey Bart’s demotion and the wide range in the performance of this season’s promoted top prospects, the return of Stephen Strasburg (sort of), an update on Cody Bellinger and Christian Yelich and observations about Alex Bregman, David Robertson, Sandy Alcantara, Willians Astudillo, and Tony Gonsolin and the Dodgers, the teaser for the latest TV adaptation of A League of Their Own, Angel Hernandez filing an appeal over his discrimination lawsuit, the Rays’ Pride Night debacle, a NYT crossword conflating plate appearances and at-bats, and pedantry about whether home-run hitters are actually on base, plus a Past Blast about 1861.
Audio intro: Nick Lowe, “14 Days”
Audio outro: Imperial Teen, “One Two”
Link to Jay Jaffe on Maddon
Link to Sam Blum on Maddon
Link to Rosenthal Q&A with Maddon
Link to Ohtani’s streak-ending highlights
Link to story about signature significance
Link to James Fegan on La Russa
Link to Ginny Searle on La Russa
Link to Ben Clemens on La Russa
Link to broadcast clip of La Russa IBB
Link to La Russa explanation video
Link to Seager 1-2 IBB
Link to Trout 1-2 IBB
Link to Ballpark Pal home-runs thread
Link to Alan Nathan on Twitter
Link to Mike Axisa on homers and Greene
Link to Evan Drellich on MiLB sticky stuff
Link to Sam on Statcast no-hitters
Link to Greene’s batted balls allowed
Link to short Rays-Cardinals game
Link to MLB.com on McClanahan
Link to pitcher pace leaderboard
Link to Jay on Bart’s demotion
Link to Ben on the minors-to-majors gap
Link to MLB.com on Strasburg
Link to David Laurila on Bregman
Link to Ben on Longoria
Link to Jay on Gonsolin
Link to Astudillo scoring video
Link to A League of Their Own teaser
Link to story about Hernandez’s appeal
Link to Hernandez at Umpire Scorecards
Link to Ginny on the Rays
Link to Emma’s crossword tweet
Link to tweet about NL Central losing streak
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1861 story source
Link to Cabrera’s spring hidden-ball trick
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| 0:00.0 | All the animals are in too much damage has been done |
| 0:09.0 | So I'm giving you my notice |
| 0:16.0 | And it works this way |
| 0:21.0 | In two weeks time |
| 0:24.0 | You will notice I've been gone for 14 days |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1861 |
| 0:35.0 | Effectively wild a baseball podcast for fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:40.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined once again by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs of Lowek |
| 0:45.0 | Hello |
| 0:46.0 | We are both home, both on the mic, this is nice |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, we are here, we have returned, I've seen some baseball in the last 24 hours |
| 0:56.0 | Good, well a lot of baseball has happened |
| 1:00.0 | And we have a lot of baseball news to discuss |
| 1:03.0 | So I have a number of items on an itinerary here but I guess we should start with the angels |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah |
| 1:12.0 | So slightly less depressing conversation than it would have been one day ago if we had had it then |
| 1:17.0 | So that's something |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, they have won a baseball game |
| 1:22.0 | How about that? |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah |
| 1:24.0 | Show Hayotani single-handedly ended the losing streak |
| 1:27.0 | Well, he used both of his hands and arms as a right-hander |
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