Effectively Wild Episode 1998: Congrats on the Paternity Leave
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a good time to be a Pirates fan, whether the red-hot Rays or the ice-cold A’s will regress more toward the mean over the rest of the season, Rob Manfred’s comments about A’s fans, Logan O’Hoppe’s injury and Brandon Marsh’s hot streak, whether Bryce Harper has Wolverine’s healing factor, a Byron Buxton catch-22, the Twins’ lack of stolen bases, rosin’s real effects, the early-season injury rate, and more. Then (1:00:20) they Stat Blast about the one pitcher who won’t let the pitch clock rush him, Mookie Betts and the latest-career starting-shortstop debuts, and MLB trends in paternity leave, plus (1:37:41) the surprising origin of “velocity” as an alternative term for “speed” in baseball, a Past Blast (1:45:22) from 1998, and a few follow-ups (1:48:42).
Audio intro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to MLBTR on Reynolds
Link to MLBTR on Shelton
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to MLBTR on Maggi
Link to CNN on Maggi
Link to old EW episode on Maggi
Link to “phantom ballplayer” wiki
Link to Maggi video
Link to worst season-starting run diff
Link to worst 23-game run diff
Link to best season-starting run diff
Link to best 23-game run diff
Link to Manfred on the A’s
Link to A’s attendance by year
Link to 1991 A’s payroll
Link to story on Lacob and the A’s
Link to Joe Pompliano on the A’s
Link to Sam Blum on O’Hoppe
Link to Jay Jaffe on O’Hoppe
Link to FG catcher depth charts
Link to story on Harper’s return
Link to Wolverine origin story
Link to Twins Daily on Buxton
Link to Buxton on DHing
Link to Buxton collision
Link to Birnbaum on the DH penalty
Link to Russell on the DH penalty
Link to BP on Rockies/Twins SB
Link to Gleeman on the Twins’ running
Link to MLBTR on pre-tacked balls
Link to Southern League pitcher tweet
Link to Laurila tweet
Link to rosin wars info
Link to Pages From Baseball’s Past
Link to Rob on rosin and spin
Link to Ben on sticky-stuff effects
Link to BP on early injuries
Link to Passan on early injuries
Link to new Topps NOW cards
Link to Topps NOW archive
Link to Isaac’s GitHub
Link to Gus’s GitHub
Link to 36-game sequences
Link to list of longest streaks
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to pitch tempo leaderboard
Link to pitch tempo spreadsheet
Link to Pivetta on the clock
Link to FG violations leaderboard
Link to FG post on Mookie
Link to story on Mookie’s SS debut
Link to Mookie’s SS dream
Link to most G before first SS start
Link to list without DH/PH/PR
Link to Kenny Jackelen on Twitter
Link to 1982 Evans article
Link to story on Martin’s debut
Link to paternity-leave data
Link to Murphy/Esiason story
Link to 2011 Lewis story
Link to 2011 paternity-leave story
Link to Jaffe on Muncy mashing
Link to 2019 article on paternity leave
Link to 2011 paternity-leave story
Link to 2022 paternity-leave story
Link to another paternity-leave story
Link to Carey Price on paternity leave
Link to speed vs. velocity
Link to speed vs. velocity sources
Link to 1998 Past Blast source
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Buxton/Twins win
Link to Reds mascots page
Link to “Honey Bun” lyrics
Link to Craig Edwards on relievers
Link to Ben Clemens on relievers
Link to dilly dally/lollygag
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| 0:00.0 | A baseball podcast, analytics and stats, with Ben and Meg from Fame Grouse effective in |
| 0:13.4 | This soccer champion wasубled by streethead anti pistol gripcher and Wit piece by |
| 0:14.8 | Eck Lack Who CLUK Police |
| 0:30.4 | and welcome to episode 1998 of Effectively Wild A baseball podcast from fans Крас |
| 0:36.0 | presented by our Patreon supporters, I am benlundberg of the ringer joined by |
| 0:40.1 | Meg Rally of band graphs. Hello, hey, hello, I haven't said this that |
| 0:45.0 | often lately, but today is probably a pretty good day to be a pirate span. |
| 0:49.1 | Hmm, they have the second most wins in the majors as we speak here on Tuesday |
| 0:55.5 | afternoon trailing only the race. They have Henry Davis perhaps catcher the |
| 1:01.4 | future off to a hot start in AA Andrew McCutchen as we covered last week is off |
| 1:06.6 | to an almost McCutchen ask vintage start to the season Derek Shelton their |
| 1:11.6 | manager just signed an extension. That's how good the vibes are and probably |
| 1:16.3 | best of all at least today. Brian Reynolds signed to that extension that has |
| 1:20.7 | been long in the works. So he is going to be a pirate for a while eight years |
| 1:26.2 | hundred six point seven five million dollar contract extension, which is in |
| 1:30.9 | Roddollars the biggest contract in Pittsburgh pirates history, I believe, and |
| 1:35.3 | no opt-outs he did not get his opt-out that he was angling for. So I guess |
| 1:41.3 | Jim Bowden will be pleased. Wow, crisis of rooted. Yeah, some no trade |
| 1:46.4 | protection at least. So you got to be feeling pretty good again. I don't know |
| 1:51.6 | how long the good vibes will last. I don't know if this is gonna be a good |
| 1:55.5 | baseball team. I wouldn't have said so a few weeks ago. Yeah, but you now have |
| 2:00.7 | Reynolds in place. O'Neill Cruz is hurt, of course, but he's in place for quite a |
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