Effectively Wild Episode 1976: Season Preview Series: Dodgers and Cubs
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2023
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Kenta Maeda pitching well despite PitchCom giving away his signs, spring training injuries (5:26), the upsides and downsides of pitchers beginning to call their own pitches with PitchCom (9:03), and the reasons why hitters collectively seem to swing more often than they should (20:18). Then they continue (and pass the halfway point of) their 2023 season preview series by discussing the Los Angeles Dodgers (40:01) with Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic, and the Chicago Cubs (1:19:32) with Sahadev Sharma of The Athletic, plus a Past Blast from 1976 (2:07:56).
Audio intro: Faye, “Swing State”
Audio interstitial 1: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Requiem K. 626 – Lux Aeterna”
Audio interstitial 2: Andy Fairweather Low, “Halfway to Everything”
Audio outro: Lucy Dacus, “Triple Dog Dare”
Link to ESPN on Maeda
Link to Turner-Hernández video
Link to EW shart discussion
Link to Rob Arthur on sign-stealing
Link to article on training w/o games
Link to Greinke calling own pitches
Link to Maddux calling own pitches
Link to old EW on calling own pitches
Link to Scherzer on PitchCom legality
Link to ESPN on pitchers calling pitches
Link to article on Padres pitch calls
Link to article on Burnes pitch calls
Link to article on Giants pitch calls
Link to tweet about Ohtani pitch calls
Link to article on Cole pitch calls
Link to article on Severino pitch calls
Link to video of Scherzer pitch calls
Link to hitter run values on swings
Link to Tom Tango thread on swings
Link to Devan Fink on swings
Link to Eno Sarris on swings
Link to Swing decision Run Value
Link to Vargas not swinging
Link to Tango on approaches by count
Link to Tango on sliders
Link to Tom Verducci on sliders
Link to Rob on playing deeper
Link to Rob on BABIP/defense
Link to Russell on OBP > BA
Link to FanGraphs playoff odds
Link to FG payroll breakdown
Link to Dodgers offseason tracker
Link to Dodgers depth chart
Link to Ben Clemens on the Dodgers
Link to Fabian on Syndergaard
Link to article on Heyward’s swing
Link to Fabian’s spring preview
Link to Dodgers first-round picks
Link to Fabian’s author archive
Link to Cubs offseason tracker
Link to Cubs depth chart
Link to EW preview series wiki
Link to 2019 Pitch Lab piece
Link to 2022 Pitch Lab piece
Link to Sahadev on Hendricks
Link to Sahadev on Ricketts
Link to Sahadev on Bellinger
Link to Sahadev on Madrigal
Link to Sahadev on Taillon
Link to Sahadev on sweepers
Link to EW Bellinger roundtable
Link to Woodward on back-picks
Link to Sahadev’s spring preview
Link to Sahadev’s author archive
Link to 1976 article source
Link to HoF site on the shorts
Link to Paul Lukas on the shorts
Link to Chris Creamer on the shorts
Link to Costanza uniforms video
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to MLBTR on Painter
Link to NPB triple-digit uniform
Link to CPBL no. 999
Link to triple-digit ump uniforms
Link to Spaceman uni source
Link to Lee wearing 337
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| 0:00.0 | Whenever I swing high, I'm risky, I survive on second-wispy dance. |
| 0:04.0 | Got to be a barrier. |
| 0:07.0 | Fresh now, I've also quickly rolled up on two rides. |
| 0:10.0 | So messy dance, got to be a barrier. |
| 0:14.1 | Oh, sweet, very little jaw. |
| 0:17.5 | The ease of eye-moo, I'm also low-loat. |
| 0:20.9 | The edge is soft and it's still tight. |
| 0:24.6 | And play, we play, please make it stop. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 1976, |
| 0:30.8 | effectively wild, a baseball podcast from Bandgrass |
| 0:33.8 | presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.9 | I am Ben Lemberg of The Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh |
| 0:38.4 | of Bandgrass, the low neck. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello. |
| 0:41.0 | So we got a couple big team previews for you today. |
| 0:44.3 | In just a little while, we will be talking to Fabian Aradaya |
| 0:47.6 | of the Athletic about the Los Angeles Dodgers, |
| 0:50.3 | followed by Sahara Sharma, also of the Athletic on the Chicago Cubs. |
| 0:55.6 | Not too much to talk about before then, probably, |
| 0:59.0 | because there hasn't been any big breaking news |
| 1:01.4 | or wind breaking news like the kind that we talked about |
| 1:05.2 | last time. |
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