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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1931: Big Batters Don’t Cry

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about redefining the MVP award, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s unearthed baseball blogs, Billy Beane’s new role with the A’s, and the Braves’ spinoff from Liberty Media, plus a Past Blast from 1931. Then (30:27) they bring on listener and top-tier Patreon supporter Peter Bonney to discuss his baseball background and answer listener emails about baseball economics and the leaguewide effects of low-spending owners, an open-ended player to be named later, batters weeping intentionally, the art of arbitrary endpoints, PitchCom voice actors, how many MLB games are available via video, a team award for the regular season, how to order umpires by accuracy in the World Series, holistic Hall of Famers, and having to win three straight games to win the World Series.

Audio intro: Night Beats, “Crypt
Audio interstitial: The Claudettes, “Dozing in the Crypt
Audio outro: The Mother Hips, “Payroll Peter

Link to AL MVP results
Link to NL MVP results
Link to The Ringer FTX explainer
Link to Bloomberg on FTX
Link to Milky Eggs on FTX
Link to SBF’s baseball blog posts
Link to SBF’s first post
Link to SBF’s first pitcher-roles post
Link to SBF’s second pitcher-roles post
Link to SBF on fetishization of the old
Link to Dave Cameron’s pitching post
Link to SBF’s 2021 Twitter thread
Link to story on FTX lawsuit
Link to Ohtani/FTX press release
Link to Manfred on FTX
Link to MLBTR on Beane
Link to Liberty Media announcement
Link to Travis Sawchik on the Braves
Link to 1931 story source
Link to SABR on night baseball
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to Peter’s THT articles
Link to Peter’s umpire presentation
Link to Peter’s Fenway presentation
Link to Peter’s company
Link to Kwan on strikeouts
Link to The Gist on polarization
Link to Sawchik on PitchCom
Link to Pujols homer reel
Link to Dayn on a team award
Link to the Stat Blast song
Link to the EW emails database
Link to Ryan Nelson’s MVP tweet
Link to MLBTR on Bellinger

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0:00.0

I'm gonna take you with me, I'm gonna let you in

0:10.0

I'm gonna let you in, I'm gonna let you in

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1931 of Infected for Guiled, a

0:34.3

Fangrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:37.2

I'm Meg Raleigh, a Fangrafts and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer.

0:40.9

And how are you?

0:41.9

Doing okay, how are you?

0:43.4

I'm doing well, good.

0:45.5

So we have a Patreon supporter joining us later in the episode, a Mike T.R. Patreon

0:50.3

supporter, Peter Bonnie will be on and we'll talk a little bit about his baseball background

0:54.5

and then get into some emails.

0:57.1

Since we last recorded, we've had MVP awards come out so all the awards are done.

1:02.1

They were all pretty predictable, all pretty uncontroversial and we saw as expected that

1:08.3

Aaron Judge won easily in the AL, Paul Gulchmit won easily in the NL, a little less easily

1:13.7

but still pretty easily.

1:15.4

My only observation here and I don't know that this actually matters but it bothers me,

1:20.6

I think still that pictures are eligible for the MVP but not recognized as valuable as

1:29.4

they are.

1:30.4

You know what I mean?

1:31.4

Because like pictures have their own dedicated award.

1:34.0

They have a sayon and it's basically the best picture award.

1:37.6

We don't call it the most valuable picture award and therefore it seems like no one really

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