Effectively Wild Episode 2002: East Coast MLBias
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about players being paid for on-field, in-game interviews, pitcher injuries and pitcher call-ups, how low Oakland’s attendance could go (and whether the team might bungle its move to Las Vegas), the NL West race, the AL East’s strength compared to the AL Central’s, which team invented the in-dugout home run ritual, whether the Angels should sign Gary Sánchez, Bryce Harper’s return, the Marlins’ record in one-run games, Colin Holderman and nominative determinism, and more, plus a Past Blast (1:18:13) from 2002.
Audio intro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to report about player payments
Link to Emma on in-game interviews
Link to Ben on in-game interviews
Link to article on Rockies trying
Link to FG’s prospect rankings
Link to Millers game
Link to lowest 2023 attendance
Link to lowest 2022 attendance
Link to lowest 1990-2019 attendance
Link to ’97 White Sox game story
Link to Passan’s A’s tweet
Link to 2014 Dodgers bubbles story
Link to 2013 A’s tunnel story
Link to 2023 HR celebrations
Link to Twins HR celebration
Link to Sam on WS dogpiles
Link to Sam on walk-off celebrations
Link to Mariners trident story
Link to article on AL East strength
Link to depth charts standings
Link to playoff odds
Link to Jay Jaffe on the Yankees
Link to Yankees IL tweet
Link to combined WAR leaderboard
Link to MLBTR on Sánchez
Link to catcher depth charts
Link to Sánchez’s Savant page
Link to article on Sánchez’s defense
Link to Angels coaches tweet
Link to Ben C. on Harper
Link to BaseRuns records
Link to Holderman’s game log
Link to 2002 Past Blast source
Link to 2002 source, cont’d.
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When I'm riding the bus, I go in for a walk. |
| 0:08.0 | From shop, I might have been missing people's hearts. |
| 0:11.0 | On here, about baseball, with new ones and property and stats. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, yeah! |
| 0:20.0 | Don't hear about deterrents or about gambling apps. |
| 0:24.0 | All they want to hear about, might try to find a call. |
| 0:27.0 | And all tanks, you're all dead. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm the ongoing, out of one side. |
| 0:33.0 | Rose grows! |
| 0:35.0 | Give me, give me, give me a thank you to the wild. |
| 0:38.0 | Give me, give me, give me a thank you to the wild. |
| 0:40.0 | Give me, give me, give me a thank you to the wild. |
| 0:42.0 | This is a thank you to the wild. |
| 0:44.0 | Blow and welcome to episode 2002 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:48.0 | a baseball podcast from band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:53.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of The Ringr, joined by Meg Rally of band graphs. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello! |
| 0:58.0 | So we mused recently about why players are willing to do in-game interviews, live from the field. |
| 1:05.0 | And we know now, I think, it was reported a couple weeks ago by Andrew Martian of The New York Post, |
| 1:12.0 | which I had missed until a couple of listeners pointed it out to us. |
| 1:15.0 | But they are, in fact, being paid for that, which I guess is not a surprise, right? |
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