Effectively Wild Episode 1986: Season Preview Series: Braves and Rockies
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about prospects who have (Jordan Walker, Anthony Volpe) and haven’t (Grayson Rodriguez, Brett Baty) made Opening Day rosters and MLB’s player-centric PSAs about the new rules, then complete their 2023 season preview series by discussing the Atlanta Braves (15:07) with Grant McAuley of 92.9 The Game, and the Colorado Rockies (53:50) with Danielle Allentuck of The Denver Gazette, plus a Past Blast from 1986 (1:26:07), trivia answers (1:30:00), a Stat Blast (1:31:34) about the biggest WAR gaps between Opening Day starters, the worst pitchers ever to start on Opening Day, and the best pitchers and hitters never to start on Opening Day, and a postscript (1:41:09).
Audio intro: Benny and A Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Pedantic)”
Audio interstitial: Simon Waldram, “What Were You Thinking?”
Audio outro: Benny and A Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Horny)”
Link to MLBTR on Volpe
Link to MLBTR on Walker
Link to Mains on Cardinals PECOTA
Link to MLBTR on Turang
Link to MLBTR on Baty/Vientos
Link to FG post on Vientos
Link to MLBTR on Rodriguez
Link to Elias on Rodriguez
Link to Ben on 2022 OD promotions
Link to Ben on 2022 debuts
Link to MLB rules PSA hub
Link to Snell/Anderson spot
Link to Vogelbach/Showalter spot
Link to Cranston spot
Link to FanGraphs playoff odds
Link to FG payroll breakdown
Link to Braves offseason tracker
Link to Braves depth chart
Link to MLB Pipeline rankings
Link to From The Diamond
Link to Rockies offseason tracker
Link to Rockies depth chart
Link to Sam’s Rockies essay
Link to article on hangover effect
Link to article on curing the hangover
Link to Sarris on McMahon
Link to Danielle’s author archive
Link to Past Blast source
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Braves-Rockies trivia answers
Link to Stat Blast spreadsheet 1
Link to Stat Blast spreadsheet 2
Link to article about LBJ’s first pitch
Link to Brown/Cole source 1
Link to Brown/Cole source 2
Link to Brown/Cole source 3
Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter
Link to Woodward on changeups
Link to EW on seam-shifted wake
Link to Forbes valuations
Link to Mains on Forbes data
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's moments like these that make you ask, how can you not be pedantic about baseball? |
| 0:07.0 | If baseball were different, how different would it be? |
| 0:11.0 | On the case with light ribbon, all analytically, |
| 0:15.0 | Cross-jagging, compile, find a new understanding |
| 0:18.0 | Not effectively, why, that can you not be pedantic? |
| 0:24.0 | Yes, when it comes to baseball, how can you not be pedantic? |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1986 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:34.0 | a baseball podcast for fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters, |
| 0:38.0 | I am Ben and Berger of the Ringer JoinBind, |
| 0:41.0 | Meg Rowley of Bandrats. Hello, Meg. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, we've done it. This is our last team preview pod of 2023. |
| 0:49.0 | We have completed the series, or by the end of this episode, |
| 0:52.0 | we will have, so I'm relieved, I'm happy, I'm also glad that we did it again. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, and certainly very appreciative of everyone who joined us to preview all of these teams. |
| 1:04.0 | But yeah, it's a big undertaking, Ben, and we, you know, |
| 1:09.0 | we time it with a time here where there's just nothing else going on, so it's fine. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, I know it's busy for you, what with prospect season and positional power ranking season, |
| 1:17.0 | but that is usually the case on the baseball calendar, except this spring. |
| 1:21.0 | It turned out to be a super exciting WBC. |
| 1:23.0 | Anyway, we made time for it all, and we do have two more teams to go today. |
| 1:27.0 | We will be talking to Grant McColley about the Braves very shortly, |
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