Effectively Wild Episode 1996: Sticky-Sniffing Dogs
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the continued Yandy Díaz breakout and listeners’ suggestions for his new beef-related nickname, the greatness of post-peak Clayton Kershaw and the end of Diamondbacks Madison Bumgarner, the Oakland A’s (almost) officially leaving for Las Vegas, a Scott Boras metaphor about Juan Soto, Max Scherzer’s sticky suspension, the return of Fernando Tatis Jr., Rob Manfred’s comments about contract-length limitations, the Marlins walking back a Bartman promotion, the existence of Hoby Milner, the usage of batted-ball exit speeds on broadcasts, and the many twists and turns of the Jarred Kelenic, Edwin Díaz, and Robinson Canó trade, plus a Past Blast (1:24:00) from 1996.
Audio intro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ivan Julian, “Sticky”
Link to 2017 Kershaw article
Link to Ben on Kershaw in 2018
Link to Baumann on Kershaw
Link to Baumann on the Trash Pandas
Link to Soviet poster
Link to Ben on Kershaw in 2019
Link to Kershaw K streak
Link to MLBTR on Bumgarner
Link to Bumgarner-Contreras video
Link to MLBTR on the A’s
Link to Las Vegas report
Link to Boras baking metaphor
Link to Boras/Cuzzi comments
Link to suspension explanation
Link to Scherzer video
Link to Manfred’s contract comments
Link to Bartman promo story
Link to Bartman’s 2016 comments
Link to Escobar/Fogo story
Link to Jeff on the Kelenic trade
Link to 1996 Past Blast source
Link to 1996 NYT source
Link to FG on the zone and pace
Link to Jon Roegele on the zone
Link to Ben on the zone and Ks
Link to Dune kid clip
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Atlantic League experiments
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | and 10 car |
| 0:04.2 | entice |
| 0:09.8 | ầ |
| 0:13.2 | a |
| 0:25.6 | stat was processed and fastenable removed |
| 0:31.8 | three new秋townis |
| 0:41.2 | for bees |
| 0:47.8 | hello and welcome to episode 1996 of effectively wild a baseball |
| 0:57.6 | podcast from fan crafts presented by our patreon supporters I am Benlundberg of |
| 1:02.6 | the ringer joined by Meg Rally of fan graphs hello Meg |
| 1:05.7 | hello so the suggestions for a new nickname for Yandideas have been flying |
| 1:11.3 | in much as the balls have been flying off of Yandideas's bat he hit two more |
| 1:16.8 | homers since we talked about it last time he has continued to hit balls in the |
| 1:21.6 | air and some of them have gone over the fence so he is now fourth in baseball |
| 1:28.4 | on qualified hitters when it comes to expected weighted on base average so it's |
| 1:33.5 | pretty impressive this could be the real breakout I know he was pretty good last |
| 1:37.0 | year but he's up to six homers already after having nine you know hundred |
| 1:41.6 | thirty seven games last year it's seventeen games right now that's a much |
| 1:45.9 | improved ratio so now that he is no longer a ground ball hitter and thus can |
| 1:51.0 | no longer be called ground beef we put a call out for suggestions what can we |
| 1:56.0 | call the beef boy who hits the balls in the air now here's what we've gotten |
| 2:00.3 | flyman young it's not bad air beef air-borne beef I think that's a |
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