meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1866: That Sinking Feeling

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

EWFI
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about two spectacular games by Shohei Ohtani and Ohtani’s extraordinary playing-time pace and relay a sinker-iffic response from Michael Lorenzen to a previous discussion about baseball grip, then (24:22) answer listener emails about using different-colored balls to denote different levels of liveliness, how much time to train players have in-season, whether fielders are to blame when their gloves develop holes, outlawing webbed gloves to raise BABIP, single-game team home-run records, whether players who come up now are already conditioned by pitch clocks, PitchCom and pace, which single stat they would most want to know about hitters and pitchers, and how many appeals a ball-strike challenge system should allow, plus (1:23:17) a Past Blast from 1866.

Audio intro: Jon Brion, “Hook, Line and Sinker
Audio outro: Japanese Breakfast, “Boyish

Link to Ohtani game stories
Link to FG combined WAR leaderboard
Link to Langs tweet
Link to pre-2022 combined BF+PA data
Link to Lorenzen comments
Link to MLB mud memo
Link to sinker HBP rate
Link to Annie Hall clip
Link to Justin Choi on sinkers
Link to Ben on pitching machines
Link to Diaz glove video
Link to Vlad glove video
Link to Rob Arthur on low BABIP
Link to 2015 story on age and pace
Link to Rob on pace and velo
Link to Russell on pace and velo
Link to Rob on batter age and pace
Link to 27-and-under SP pace
Link to 28-and-over SP pace
Link to team homer records in game
Link to team homer records in season
Link to MiLB experimental rules
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1866 story source
Link to Creighton SABR bio
Link to tweet about Pabor’s nickname
Link to Thorn on Pabor’s nickname
Link to Gavarni illustration

 Sponsor Us on Patreon
Subscribe to Stathead (Code: WILD20)
 Facebook Group
 Twitter Account
 EW Subreddit
 Effectively Wild Wiki
 iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)
 Get Our Merch!
 Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com

Source

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Oh I go for it every time

0:08.0

Just like a heavy drinker

0:15.0

I go for it every time

0:20.0

A clean and sinker

0:25.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1866 of Effectively Wild, a fangirl of Spaceball podcast broadcasts you fire

0:31.0

Patreon supporters, I'm Egrillia fangirl and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer

0:36.0

Then how are you?

0:37.0

Doing well, how are you?

0:38.0

Oh you know, I'm doing alright

0:40.0

It's been a while since we started an episode with a good old fashioned rave about Choheotani

0:46.0

And by a while, I mean, I don't know, a week or two probably

0:50.0

It's a while for me, I've backed off my pace of discussing Choheotani probably to no one's dismay

0:59.0

But we still talk about him a fair amount and there are certain times when you just have to talk about him

1:04.0

Because he demands your attention and everyone's attention

1:07.0

And this is one of those weeks because he had couple signature games back to back really

1:13.0

The way that only he can where anyone can have a good offensive game or a good pitching game

1:18.0

But no one else can have them at the same player or back to back games the way that he did

1:24.0

So he had the game where he drove in eight runs on two home runs including a game tying three runs shot

1:33.0

Just in the ninth and then he followed that up by pitching an eight inning gem

1:40.0

Two hits, 13 strikeouts, a career high, one walk

1:44.0

Caviar, Kansas City Royals, where his opponent in each of these games

1:49.0

But even so, there's no way to take away from the luster really

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.