Effectively Wild Episode 2012: Double Clutch
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2023
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s prediction concerning the Padres’ and Rangers’ rest-of-season performance with runners in scoring position, then (14:08) answer listener emails about the ultimate Quadruple-A player, leaving runners on base for the opposing team, immaculate-inning edge cases, tanking for Shohei Ohtani, setting up a lifelong Google Alert for a player, the 2020 season’s impact on Hall of Fame cases, and Barry Bonds with an extra-short bat, followed by (1:12:43) Stat Blasts about the frequency of in-game position switches and the most players on a team who had previously played on the same former team, plus (1:40:06) a Past Blast from 2012 and a few follow-ups.
Audio intro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”
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Link to Gonny Jomes wiki
Link to old EW on immaculate innings
Link to Oviedo’s inning
Link to info on Mavs tanking
Link to article on Wemby tanking
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Link to Posnanski on DiMaggio
Link to Jay on missed time
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Link to Bois on Bonds
Link to listener emails database
Link to Topps Now cards
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to positional permutations
Link to position-switch sheet
Link to second Stat Blast doc
Link to 2012 Past Blast source
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Does baseball look the same to you as it does to me? |
| 0:07.0 | When we look at baseball, how much do we see? |
| 0:13.0 | Well, the curve falls bend and the home runs fly |
| 0:17.0 | More to the game than meets the eye |
| 0:20.0 | To get the stats compiled and stories filed |
| 0:23.0 | Fans on the internet might get riled |
| 0:26.0 | But we can break it down on effective wild |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2012 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.0 | A baseball podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Ben the Berg of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fagrass |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello. |
| 0:45.0 | I have a prediction to make. |
| 0:47.0 | I know this is a first in podcast history |
| 0:50.0 | Where the 2000 plus episodes end. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm going to finally make a prediction. |
| 0:55.0 | That's not true. |
| 0:56.0 | I think I've made a few predictions. |
| 0:57.0 | I've had two over the years. |
| 0:58.0 | But it's not a common occurrence for me. |
| 1:00.0 | But I'm just going to make a prediction. |
| 1:02.0 | So as you are aware, the Texas Rangers have scored a lot of runs this season. |
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