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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1872: A Moderate Amount of Hijinks

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley rant and banter (ranter?) about MLB’s approach to promoting the Futures Game, then (17:33) discuss superheroes throwing baseballs, the latest exploits of the semi-superpowered Shohei Ohtani and Sandy Alcantara, and Ohtani’s chances against Aaron Judge (and others) in the AL MVP race, Stat Blast (39:03) about losing teams with two hyper-productive players and pitchers with the most even pitch-type distributions, entertain the idea (59:59) of adjusting WAR for quality of competition because of position-player pitchers, speculate about Judge’s free-agent contract, highlight Luis Arraez’s pursuit of Ted Williams, an Andrew Vaughn hidden-ball-trick attempt, Charlie Blackmon’s walk-up song, a fateful Rockies shift, observe (1:23:10) which teams’ playoff probabilities have risen or sunk the most in the last month and react to MLB’s asterisk-esque All-Star Game caps, and close (1:32:32) with a Past Blast from 1872.

Audio intro: Status Quo, “The Future’s So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)
Audio outro: Heart, “Hijinx

Link to Futures Game rosters
Link to Jarrett Seidler on MiLB talent
Link to 2023 WBC announcement
Link to The Boys Season 1 clip
Link to Invincible clip
Link to Superman Returns clip
Link to Alvarez throw
Link to video about baseball movies
Link to story on Judge’s 30th homer
Link to story about Ohtani’s game
Link to FG combined WAR leaderboard
Link to Angels PR tweet
Link to other Angels PR tweet
Link to third Angels PR tweet
Link to Jeremy Frank tweet
Link to video of HRs off of VanMeter
Link to Katie Sharp tweet
Link to Stathead
Link to Stat Blast list of losing teams
Link to Dan on sub-replacement Angels
Link to Alcantara’s pitch usage
Link to least-used-top-pitch data
Link to lowest-standard-deviation data
Link to Rob Mains on adjusted offense
Link to Craig on Judge’s contract
Link to PPP velo by year
Link to Patrick on the Rockies’ loss
Link to tweet about the Rockies’ positioning
Link to clip of Rockies-Dodgers play
Link to TikTok of Blackmon’s song
Link to playoff odds changes
Link to France ASG video
Link to asterisky Astros cap
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1872 story source
Link to history of infield fly rule

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0:00.0

I got a job waiting for my graduation 50-thousand year will buy a lot of beer

0:07.3

Things are going great and they're only getting better

0:12.0

And doing all right, getting good grades, the future's so bright

0:18.0

I got a way of shape, I got a way of shape

0:24.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1872 of Effective Bewild

0:27.0

The bandwraff space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

0:30.0

I'm Meg Relly and I'm Raff and I'm joined as always by Ben Lemberg of The Ring

0:34.0

How are you?

0:35.0

I'm doing all right and normally I would ask how you're doing

0:38.0

But I already know the answer, you are fired up, you are aggrieved

0:44.0

So much stronger than I feel

0:46.0

Let's see if I can work my way into Bluster

0:49.0

Yeah, I feel moderately aggrieved, it's not a new grievance

0:54.0

But I find my existing grievance inflamed, reignited, stoked

1:00.0

And the more reason to be aggrieved because it's not new

1:03.0

Yeah, so Ben, can we talk about the future's game for a second?

1:06.0

Please

1:07.0

Let's talk about the future's game within the context of getting people excited about baseball and the draft

1:13.0

I'd like to bracket my draft complaint for closer to the draft

1:18.0

Which is that like the draft being in July remains one of the dumber things I've ever heard

1:23.0

No one likes this, I'd like to just say no one likes this

1:26.0

I know that MLP seems to like it but like very few people who work for them

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