Effectively Wild Episode 1891: So Long, Jon

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up on Tony La Russa’s suspicious pinch-runner call, banter about Joey Gallo on the Dodgers and Andrew Benintendi on the Yankees, the utility of booing, and the parochial concept of being unable to play in New York, the curious timing of the Rangers’ firing of long-tenured executive Jon Daniels, […]

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0:00.0	It really didn't sound that good.
0:04.3	It probably didn't 는 woo him.
0:17.2	Hello and welcome to episode 1891 of Effectively Wild A Baseball Podcast from Bandgraphs,
0:37.3	presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:39.3	I'm Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, joined by Meg Relly of Fangraphs.
0:42.8	Hello Megh.
0:43.8	Hello.
0:44.8	Today we talked about whether Tony LaRusa had in fact forgotten to insert a pinch runner
0:50.8	until he was reminded by a fan who was shouting from behind home plate as a video seemed
0:56.6	to suggest.
0:57.6	Well, LaRusa has responded to that question and he says no.
1:04.0	Perhaps unsurprisingly.
1:05.4	So James Fiegan who covers the White Talks for the Athletic tweeted, LaRusa said he was
1:10.8	slow pinch running angle for him in as last night because of a debate with Miguel Cairo
1:15.6	and Jerry Naren about needing him in as his bat later in what was still a tie game.
1:21.1	He got a kick out of being told about a fan yelling suggestions but said he didn't hear
1:26.6	it.
1:27.6	Yeah, I bet he didn't.
1:28.6	It's loud there, you know.
1:30.4	It is loud.
1:31.4	Yeah.
1:32.4	Yeah, like I feel like we entertained this in the spirit of whimsy because we are, we
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