Effectively Wild Episode 1910: Broken Record
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the fight for the third wild card in the National League and the way in which the expanded playoff format shifts attention toward middling teams, appreciating postseason success and regular-season success, the regular-season dominance of the Dodgers, home-run-record derangement syndrome (17:52) and a middle ground between the warring absolutists worked up one way or another about Aaron Judge (or pitchers not pitching to him), a better name for the combined cycle, a suspicious Carlos Correa quote, a counterintuitive observation about Yadier Molina’s basestealing suppression, Tony La Russa reportedly not returning to the White Sox next season, Rich Hill planning to pitch again, pedantic questions (1:13:01) about non-baseball ballparks, payoff pitches, and long balls vs. big balls, plus a new name for the Grand Junction Rockies, a new use for a descending mound, and a Past Blast (1:26:09) from 1910.
Audio intro: Vampire Weekend, “Obvious Bicycle”
Audio outro: AC/DC, “Big Balls”
Link to study on chance in the playoffs
Link to Ginny Searle on the Dodgers
Link to Maris Jr. quote
Link to Ben on the PED era
Link to Rob Arthur on PED HR outliers
Link to Lamont video
Link to Connecticut baseball divide
Link to Correa video
Link to Correa quote text
Link to Russell on Molina
Link to Edwards on Molina
Link to TLR report
Link to Hill report
Link to EW emails database
Link to “last strike” EW wiki page
Link to GJ Rockies renaming report
Link to GJ Chubs EW wiki page
Link to pit clock EW wiki page
Link to 1910 story source
Link to cork ball source
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to Ohtani game story
Link to Sheehan on middling teams
Link to Lasagna story
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So listen, oh, listen, oh, don't wait, don't wait. |
| 0:21.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 1910 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:26.0 | a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Ben Lemberg of The Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs. Hello, Meg. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello. How are you? |
| 0:36.0 | Well, I'm better than the Philadelphia Phillies. |
| 0:39.0 | Boy, yeah, it's getting interesting. |
| 0:42.0 | It's getting, you know, you know, Ben, this is a time that they would say, |
| 0:46.0 | it's getting interesting. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah. It's getting interesting. The Phillies are at this very moment as we record, |
| 0:53.0 | tied with the Milwaukee Brewers for that final wildcard spot. |
| 0:58.0 | They have lost five games in a row. |
| 1:00.0 | Right. Yeah. Who has the tie break? |
| 1:02.0 | It's the Phillies have the tie break? |
| 1:04.0 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, what a good touch. |
| 1:06.0 | Tie breaks are complicated. |
| 1:08.0 | It really has made it so much harder. |
| 1:11.0 | I mean, it seems like half the numbers you see are not accurate because they don't take into account. |
| 1:16.0 | Right. They don't take the tie breaks into account. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah. And it's, you have to look up season series. |
| 1:22.0 | It's just before we could just count on a tie being a tie. |
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