Effectively Wild Episode 1901: Living in Interesting Times
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about how the White Sox have played in Tony La Russa’s absence, then discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the rules changes coming to MLB in 2023: a pitch clock, restrictions on pickoff attempts and the shift, and bigger bases (with asides on a new WAR, Zack Greinke’s front-office acumen, and Ben’s hiccup cure). Then (52:40) they’re joined by historian Richard Hershberger for an in-person Past Blast from 1901, plus a long-term perspective on responses to times of rapid change in baseball, the sport’s cyclical nature, and more.
Audio intro: Phoenix, “1901”
Audio outro: Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses, “Change Is”
Link to La Russa report
Link to MLB story on rules changes
Link to ESPN story on rules changes
Link to info on infield dimensions
Link to Evan on player objections
Link to MLBPA statement
Link to episode on pitch clock history
Link to MLB BABIP by year
Link to Rob Mains on August offense
Link to Rob Arthur on spin
Link to Ben on banning the shift in 2015
Link to Jeff on banning the shift in 2018
Link to shift loophole idea
Link to Russell on banning the shift
Link to Justin Choi on banning the shift
Link to BA on the shift
Link to BA on the rules changes
Link to Justin Choi on banning the shift
Link to info on hiccups
Link to info on “intractable” hiccups
Link to article on Greinke in Milwaukee
Link to article on Greinke in L.A.
Link to article on Greinke in Arizona
Link to article on the new WAR
Link to other article on the new WAR
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to Richard’s SABR archive
Link to 1901 story source
Link to episode on 1889 relief experiment
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to Evan on voluntary recognition
Link to Michael Baumann on unionization
Link to Stengel HoF bio
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1901. |
| 0:26.4 | So yeah, Dolores, on 14 alongside we're going to show B |
| 0:49.3 | at a return early next week, but I wonder whether White Sox fans are thinking, |
| 0:55.7 | Tony, take your time. Run a few more tests. You know, just be careful because I |
| 1:03.2 | believe the White Sox are seven and three since the left and since they have |
| 1:08.7 | been managed by Interim Manager Miguel Cairo and they've made up some ground in |
| 1:13.7 | that time and they're only a game and a half off the AL Central Leads now tied |
| 1:19.1 | with the twins and I don't know that there's causation here but I think the |
| 1:24.7 | correlation is amusing at the very least not saying that Tony Rousse is the soul or |
| 1:31.5 | even primary cause of the White Sox having one of the more disappointing |
| 1:35.5 | seasons this year but the timing is at the very least funny I think that he has |
| 1:43.9 | been gone and the White Sox have turned it on and played really well over that |
| 1:47.5 | time so I'm sure everyone wishes Tony Rousse a well health wise but I do |
| 1:53.7 | wonder whether some White Sox fans are thinking you know what don't hurry back |
| 1:58.4 | take your time why not just be safe and maybe a little leisure would do you good |
| 2:05.1 | and you'll just be healthy and refreshed whenever you do return run a few more |
| 2:10.6 | tests you know just like rule out everything whatever it is that caused you to |
| 2:15.3 | take this time like don't don't hurry back we're doing okay we wish you well |
| 2:19.8 | but you know I want to make clear that we're not laughing like please like be |
| 2:25.6 | be impeded from returning by more dire health consequences but I'm |
| 2:29.8 | envisioning Tony Lerusa like you know going to bath to like take the waters you |
| 2:35.2 | know it's a long season yeah just you know kick back relax yeah recuperate in a |
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