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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1869: Big Coach on Campus

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley are joined by Jake Mintz of Céspedes Family BBQ to talk about Twins pitching coach Wes Johnson leaving the team midseason to join LSU, why MLB teams are hiring coaches from college and why colleges are hiring them back, whether MLB teams should pay coaches more, the state of player development in college, Jake’s experience at the College World Series, his short summary of what non-college baseball fans should know about the just-completed college season, the arrival of Royals rookie Vinnie Pasquantino, the Astros’ extremely low-offense catchers, the importance of pitch-tipping, Rafael Devers heating up and sitting down, Clay Holmes’s improvement after leaving the Pirates, the unwritten rules of closer entrance song etiquette, Justin Turner’s walk-up song consistency, and more. Then (1:00:19), Ben and Meg banter about yet another Tyler Wade/Taylor Ward broadcaster mixup, how Freddie Freeman leaving Atlanta is like Ben leaving grammar school, and whether wearing two gloves could actually be legal, plus a Past Blast from 1869.

Audio intro: Shy Boys, “In Gloves
Audio outro: Monophonics, “Let That Sink In

Link to Dan Hayes on Johnson
Link to SI post about Johnson
Link to article about Fetter
Link to Ben on college player dev
Link to story on Twins’ college coaches
Link to ESPN on the CWS outcome
Link to Jake on Houston’s catchers
Link to team catcher offense
Link to Trout pitch-tipping GIF
Link to Jordan on Devers
Link to Speier on Devers
Link to article about Holmes post-Pirates
Link to Ben Clemens on Holmes
Link to Jordan on Holmes
Link to Cameron Grove on pitch usage
Link to Rob Arthur on pitch usage
Link to Rob on pitch usage again
Link to sinker usage leaderboard
Link to grounder rate leaderboard
Link to Ken Rosenthal on Freeman
Link to Jay Jaffe on Freeman
Link to Kershaw comment on Freeman
Link to article on Flores crying
Link to wicket-keeper wiki
Link to wicket-keeper image
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1869 story source

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0:00.0

I surprise the security guard in a strange location

0:12.0

I'll never be seen in crime for a celebration to fancy for me

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1869 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

0:37.0

Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters, I'm the member of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of

0:43.0

Fangrass, hello Meg, hello and we are both joined by Fox Sports analysts and more

0:49.0

athletic, louder half of sespidus family barbecue, Jake Mints, hello Jake. Hello, I

0:55.4

should be very clear that the more athletic and louder, like those are two very different

1:00.0

descriptors, like I would describe myself as loud but not as athletic. Uh huh. Well,

1:06.0

more athletics than Jordan. Wow. Certainly. Only one of us bike to cross the country.

1:14.0

Exactly. He drove. Yeah, but like, you know, what you

1:18.0

was silly enough to make the bet really? Well, like I said, louder half of that. I said,

1:25.0

I said louder and more athletic. I mean, Jake, your Twitter bio says the unlikeable half,

1:30.0

I didn't go there. I wouldn't go there, but you went there. I remember, Meg, the first time I

1:35.0

ever met you at the lookout landing X sespidus family barbecue event at then safe go in,

1:43.0

I believe, 2015. And one of my takeaways was how many people went up to the two of us.

1:49.0

And it was like, I love Jordan way more. I don't believe either. I don't think you said

1:56.0

that Kate may have said that. Yeah, I don't recall saying that. I mostly just being,

2:02.0

recall being horrified that I needed to transform into a column of dust and salt because of how

2:08.0

much older I am than you guys. But it's just got any more. Yeah. Now, now we're all now.

2:14.0

I mean, she's still just as much older than she was. Yeah, but like the, the like experience of it is different now.

2:20.0

We're all grown ups here. So they can Jordan or fully adult at this point. Right. Right.

2:26.0

They've completed their education. Yeah, college graduates. Yeah, they can, they can purchase

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