Effectively Wild Episode 1902: Bat Albert
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the old-and-improved Albert Pujols, Mike Trout’s homer streak, the White Sox winning, Elvis Andrus making the A’s pay, James Karinchak’s inconclusive hair inspection, the Dodgers prematurely celebrating a clinching (and the concept of clinch creep), the puzzle of Cody Bellinger, and the retrospective puzzle of Edwin Díaz’s 2019, plus followups (53:48) on Carlos Correa, bigger bases, and shifting, listener emails (1:02:17) about bigger baseballs and/or bats, and a Past Blast (1:18:53) from 1902.
Audio intro: David Bowie, “Saviour Machine”
Audio outro: Fiona Apple, “Extraordinary Machine”
Link to hitting leaders since 8/10
Link to Stathead on big platoon splits
Link to story on Pujols and 697
Link to Pujols’ rolling wRC+
Link to Reddit thread on Pujols homers
Link to Jay Jaffe on Trout
Link to Trout HR streak story
Link to story on Andrus vs. A’s
Link to team SS wRC+ since 8/17
Link to TLR story
Link to Ben Clemens on Karinchak
Link to Rob Arthur on spin
Link to story on Dodgers mistake
Link to Reddit thread on Dodgers clinch
Link to Poscast episode on clinching
Link to Dan S. on Bellinger
Link to Eric Stephen tweet
Link to 2019 EW episode on Díaz
Link to Petriello’s shifting thread
Link to Rob Arthur on shifting
Link to EW listener emails database
Link to story about old bat sizes
Link to Eno Sarris on bats
Link to 1902 story source
Link to Hoy vs. Taylor SABR story
Link to Hoy’s SABR bio
Link to info on Hoy’s nickname
Link to Taylor’s SABR bio
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The world held his hand, gave their blood so he told him his scheme for a stab you must |
| 0:13.2 | need. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 1902 of A Effectively Wild. |
| 0:32.7 | A baseball podcast from bandwrafs presented by our patreon supporters. |
| 0:36.8 | I am Ben Lambert of the Writer, driven by Meg Rally of BandwrasmeeING. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello, let me give you three player performances over certain spans |
| 0:47.1 | somewhat arbitrary spans but interesting nonetheless, okay best hitter in baseball since August 10th |
| 0:55.4 | Minimum 80 played appearances so there are |
| 0:58.5 | 212 players who have had 80 or more played appearances since August 10th |
| 1:03.5 | Which you care to hazard any guess as to who has been the best of them offensively and that's been Mike Trout |
| 1:10.0 | Close Albert Pooholes |
| 1:13.8 | Former teammate of Mike Trout's Albert Pooholes has out hit Aaron Judge |
| 1:19.8 | Everyone else since August 10th. I don't understand what is happening here. It's wonderful |
| 1:25.9 | He is hit 346 393 802 with 11 home runs since August 10th |
| 1:33.2 | 227 WRC plus with a 288 Babip which is probably high for Albert Pooholes at this point |
| 1:41.1 | But still it's incredible and not only has he been the best hitter in baseball on a per plate appearance basis |
| 1:48.6 | He's actually hit righties over that span pretty well too like we talked about how he had become an ultimate lefty |
| 1:55.6 | Masha, yeah, and he still has a big platoon split on the season his T.O. PS plus against right-handed pitching is |
| 2:02.3 | One of the 50 lowest ever minimum 150 played appearances. Thank you, Stadhead |
| 2:07.1 | But his most recent Homer |
| 2:09.5 | 697 the one that vaulted him above a rod on the all-time home runs list |
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