Effectively Wild Episode 1930: Meat Your Maker
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani and the Cy Young Award, Buck Showalter and the Manager of the Year Award, Bryce Harper’s elbow surgery, the Angels signing Tyler Anderson, Anthony Rizzo and the Yankees’ record Defensive Runs Saved total, the Mariners trading for Teoscar Hernández, title inflation and the “associate manager,” and Royals owner John Sherman requesting a new ballpark, plus a double Past Blast (38:21) from 1930 (featuring Jack Powell’s meaty demise). Then (51:06) they talk to FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen about AFL award winners Heston Kjerstad and Connor Thomas, whether improvements carry over when players change teams, how rules changes are affecting player evaluation, this week’s 40-man-deadline roster crunches, and Kodai Senga and other NPB players who are coming to MLB.
Audio intro: Tri-State, “Hawk in the Fog”
Audio interstitial: Jordana, “Crunch”
Audio outro: The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, “Mr. Powell”
Link to MLB.com on Showalter
Link to Ben Clemens on Anderson
Link to Hawk Harrelson call
Link to Jay Jaffe on Rizzo
Link to highest team DRS totals
Link to Defensive Efficiency leaders
Link to Esteban Rivera on Teoscar
Link to MLBTR on Venable
Link to Sherman’s tweet
Link to Field of Schemes on Sherman
Link to AFL award winners
Link to FG prospect rankings
Link to Laurila on Boras
Link to Alex Eisert on Hilliard
Link to Evan Drellich on rule changes
Link to R.J. Anderson on rule changes
Link to MLBTR on the Rays’ roster
Link to Eric’s AL East piece
Link to Eric on Latin-American SP
Link to MLBTR on Nolan Jones
Link to 1930 story source
Link to SABR on William Veeck Sr.
Link to SABR on Margaret Donohue
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to @OldBaseballNews on Twitter
Link to article about Bill Haber
Link to first Powell article
Link to second Powell article
Link to NL Cy results
Link to Ben on Alcantara
Link to AL Cy results
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | wow |
| 0:23.7 | maybe |
| 0:25.7 | I'm by your stand, by your stand, by your stand, by your stand. |
| 0:37.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 1930 of Effectively Wild A baseball podcast from |
| 0:42.8 | Bandgraffs presented by our Patreon supporters I am Ben Mibberd of The Ringer. |
| 0:47.1 | Join us always for as almost always by Meg Rally of Bandgraffs. |
| 0:50.6 | Hello Meg. |
| 0:51.6 | Hello. |
| 0:52.6 | Later in the episode we will be bringing on our most frequent guest Eric Lungenhicken |
| 0:57.7 | who will be here to discuss a panoply of topics. |
| 1:00.7 | We'll be talking about how rules changes affect player evaluation. |
| 1:05.6 | We'll be talking about when players make changes with one organization, how sticky are |
| 1:10.7 | those changes when they go elsewhere. |
| 1:13.2 | We'll be talking about the 40 men roster deadline and roster crunch. |
| 1:17.1 | We'll be talking about Kode Sanga and other NPB players coming to MLB this winter. |
| 1:22.5 | But before that, just a few baseball news items that we should probably discuss. |
| 1:28.3 | We are recording late on Wednesday afternoon prior to the announcement about the Sion Awards. |
| 1:35.0 | Oh yeah. |
| 1:36.0 | Can't imagine that there will be anything all that surprising. |
| 1:39.2 | It seems like Justin Verlander will probably win in a walk I would think on the AL side. |
| 1:46.4 | And I would guess that the NL side will, if anything, be even more predictable. |
| 1:52.4 | It doesn't seem like there's a lot of intrigue here. |
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