Effectively Wild Episode 2013: The League Looks More Level

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Pete Alonso‘s, um, emergency swing, the activations (6:25) of four players (Liam Hendriks, Michael Soroka, Paul Blackburn, and Royce Lewis), the small leads in most divisions (12:03) and the leveling out of the league (A’s aside), José Abreu‘s first homer “trot” of the season, and an umpire comment caught on a hot mic. Then (40:15) they answer a listener email about the ball’s liveliness and follow up on a few other email answers, bring on Rob Mains (57:35) of Baseball Prospectus to Stat Blast about the zombie runner’s impact on home field advantage and discuss the origins of the DL’s rechristening to “injured list” (1:18:45), and follow a Past Blast from 2013 (1:27:27) with banter about Andrew McCutchen’s request for a new rule, plus a postscript (1:37:58).

Audio intro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Alonso clip
Link to Meg on Bradley
Link to Meg on Lind
Link to EW on Hernández
Link to Passan on Hendriks
Link to MLBTR on McCullers
Link to Rob Mains on 2022 inequality
Link to Rob Arthur on 2022 balance
Link to story on the Reds
Link to EW Wiki on the Reds
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to preseason predictions pod
Link to Abreu’s “trot”
Link to ump video
Link to ump post
Link to Marte’s homer
Link to HR/Contact graph
Link to ball-drag dashboard
Link to last email show
Link to Lemon on “prime”
Link to listener emails database
Link to Topps Now cards
Link to Rob on HFA
Link to HFA across sports
Link to HFA research
Link to more HFA research
Link to Ben on HFA
Link to Rob on the DL/IL
Link to 2013 Past Blast source
Link to another 2013 source
Link to Grant on catcher collisions
Link to EW Stanky Draft
Link to McCutchen article
Link to positional aging curves
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to 2016 sliding changes
Link to Hendriks gamer
Link to Soroka gamer
Link to Lewis gamer
Link to EW on TV exit speeds
Link to Fatsis on Wambsgans(s)
Link to Sam on Succession

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2013 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought to
0:25.8	you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Aigrelia Fangross and I'm joined as always by Ben
0:30.2	Limberg of the Ringer, Ben Hower You. Doing great Hower You? Well my mentions are once
0:35.7	again full of pooping. Because of pedolonzo? Yeah because of pedolonzo and I had said like
0:42.4	it's so nice to have these tender kisses be the source of so many mentions as opposed
0:48.2	to my usual beat where people are pooping and then pedolonzo had to tell a story and
0:54.0	then everyone was like hey there's a pooping guy for you. Yeah. And I love when people are like
0:59.3	in case you haven't seen it and I'm like I don't know if you understand how well known for this
1:03.7	particular beat I have become but the other beat I've seen it. You only wrote one thing about
1:09.8	this right? I mean you wrote the Archie Bradley thing and then we've talked about it. I wrote
1:16.6	about what can potentially be a precursor to pooping which was the farting and the forceful
1:24.5	inspired by the breaking blend. Yes the Adam Lindt example that Jeff and I talked about
1:31.0	on the podcast with the with the right just with the the Rasen the poof. Yeah. It seemed to
1:38.7	probably be a Rasen poof. It was a Rasen poof. I don't think he farted forcefully enough to
1:43.1	expel Rasen from his pants but I think the combination of those two articles has made this
1:51.3	my beep. Yeah the Archie Bradley one was definitely the most salient example you know because
1:58.0	there was a sleuthing required that time. Yeah. I didn't have to do a little. Yeah.
2:02.0	So Pito Anso didn't leave anything to the imagination really in terms of when this happened I mean
2:08.1	he gave enough details that the little clip from the Felt Territory interview the host one of the
2:13.6	hosts said which game it was so there's no research to do here. Yeah. As far as pinpointing the
2:19.6	game or the moment like we did with Kike Hernandez on the podcast when he came out and said that
2:25.0	he did it but didn't specify exactly when it happened. So there's no homework to do this time.
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