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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1933: Bats, Bets, Ballots, and Blasts

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about omissions from their Baseball Twitter draft, a few transactions (including the Kyle Lewis trade, the Gio Urshela trade, and multiple shortstop swaps), the Angels acquiring average players, the Dodgers non-tendering Cody Bellinger, the Phillies extending Dave Dombrowski, the new BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot and Ben’s ballot decision, a series of sports-betting investigations, a college-baseball trailblazer, comeback players of the year, and more, plus Stat Blasts (54:28) about Aaron Judge and intra-team WAR gaps, the most unique players put out, consecutive innings with double plays, and the timing of game-winning runs, a Past Blast (1:04:06) from 1933, and an Angels postscript.

Audio intro: Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek, “Angels
Audio outro: Mimi Roman, “Never Ramble, Never Gamble, Never Roam

Link to Heyman tweet
Link to Baer tweet
Link to Nightengale tweet
Link to Bautista tweet
Link to Justin Choi on Lewis
Link to Baumann on shortswaps
Link to MLBTR on Dombrowski
Link to MLBTR on Bellinger
Link to Jay on the BBWAA ballot
Link to Jay on the committee ballot
Link to EW on Ben’s ballot last year
Link to NYT sports-betting thread
Link to NYT sports-betting article 1
Link to NYT sports-betting article 2
Link to NYT sports-betting article 3
Link to NYT sports-betting article 4
Link to Olivia Pichardo news
Link to comeback players story
Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter
Link to WAR-gap Stat Blast data
Link to putouts Stat Blast data
Link to game-winning-runs data
Link to Rob Mains on comebacks
Link to 1933 story source
Link to SABR on Browns ownership
Link to MLB.com on the Browns
Link to SABR on Jackie in Montreal
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to MLBTR on the Renfroe trade
Link to tweet about Renfroe and Trout

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0:00.0

And I'm going on angels now I want them to set me free

0:08.0

I hope that they're real, though sometimes it feels like nobody's listening

0:17.0

Yeah, I'm moving the sun, the stars, I'm burning high

0:28.0

And I can't help but wonder the way that the world goes by

0:35.0

I hope that they're real, now I hope they can hear me cry

0:40.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1933 of Effectively Wild

0:44.0

A fan-graphed baseball puck has brought you by our Patreon supporters

0:47.0

I'm Meg Rallye of fan-graphs and I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer

0:51.0

Although not from where I often am, Ben how are you?

0:53.0

I'm doing alright, you sound the same, I don't think anyone would have known

0:56.0

No, I'm glad to hear that, you know, you never know what a new Wi-Fi networks and a lack of a mic stand will do

1:05.0

I feel like Frankie at the Sands just got my mic in my hand, hopefully it does not result in a lot of weird sounds

1:11.0

But anyway, the day before Thanksgiving, you're potting without home field advantage

1:16.0

This is a hotel pod, we'll see whether anyone can notice now that we've alerted everyone

1:22.0

Oh, gave it away, I'm given thanks that I have not been bombarded by suggestions for baseball tweets or baseball Twitter traditions that we overlooked in our baseball Twitter draft

1:33.0

It seems like we did a decent job, at least so far

1:36.0

I'm sure some more suggestions will trickle in but it seems like people have enjoyed that

1:41.0

I have collated a short list of the submissions that I've seen of oversight on our part

1:48.0

And one of them is John Boyce, just in general, which did occur to me after we finished drafting

1:55.0

How did we not have John Boyce represented here?

1:58.0

I couldn't really think of a specific John Boyce tweet because almost every John Boyce tweet is good

2:02.0

But people suggested that one thing would be John Boyce's watching baseball tweets

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