Effectively Wild Episode 2015: Sweeping Statement

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether Shohei Ohtani is throwing too many sweepers to opposite-handed hitters, the MLB debut of flamethrowing Ben Joyce, the extreme walk/strikeout stylings of George Kirby and Spencer Strider, the states of the Central divisions, the offense and defense of Ke’Bryan Hayes, the return of Jon Singleton, whether the pitch clock is responsible for this season’s uptick in attendance, and the taken-for-granted greatness of Mookie Betts, answer listener emails about baseball’s version of a hockey goon, players singing during the seventh-inning stretch, and whether it would make umpires more accurate to give them a PitchCom device, plus a Past Blast (1:18:33) from 2015.

Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Ohtani sweeper RV vs. RHB
Link to Ohtani sweeper RV vs. LHB
Link to sweeper leaderboard
Link to Ohtani pitch usage
Link to SP sweeper usage
Link to Ben C. on sweepers
Link to Ohtani sweeper HR vs. LHB
Link to Joyce’s debut
Link to Joyce pitch speeds
Link to story on Joyce’s record pitch
Link to Strider/Kirby spreadsheet
Link to Kirby command plot
Link to Kirby fun fact
Link to Strider fun fact
Link to Herbstreit Reds Twitter war
Link to Hayes’s defensive ratings
Link to MLBTR on Singleton
Link to annual attendance
Link to 2023 team attendance
Link to spring ratings story
Link to early-season ratings story
Link to Ben on the pitch clock
Link to Mookie gamer
Link to FG WAR leaderboard
Link to hockey enforcer wiki
Link to Brault EW episode
Link to Jeff on Brault
Link to Brault’s album
Link to Brault’s OF conversion
Link to Alberto singing
Link to EW emails database
Link to 2015 Past Blast source
Link to other 2015 source
Link to TORIIHTW book website
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Dan S. on pitcher zStats

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0:00.0	I want back to new ones
0:06.0	From two hosts of the god
0:12.0	I'm just a fan of walls
0:19.0	Nothing lasts that effectively while
0:23.0	Nothing lasts that effectively while
0:37.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2015 of Effectively Wild
0:41.0	A fan-graft space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters
0:44.0	I'm Meg Relly, a fan-grafts and I am joined as always by Ben Lumberger, the ranger Ben
0:48.0	How are you sitting today?
0:50.0	I'm sitting totally naturally, hadn't even spared a thought for it until you just brought it up
0:55.0	Although, I guess, naturally for me, I am almost in a full Chris Cross applesauce right now
1:01.0	Yeah, I mean, like what is natural?
1:04.0	So many interpretations of that, you know, there's a broad spectrum of natural
1:08.0	Doesn't mean either of your feet has to be on the floor
1:11.0	Right
1:12.0	So, yeah, well now you've made me self-conscious, but I'm going to keep sitting this way
1:16.0	I'm inviting you to sit however feels comfy
1:19.0	Yeah, we're recording on a weekend, this is unusual, so I'm sitting casually
1:24.0	Even though I always sit casually
1:26.0	So, yeah
1:28.0	I don't want to tell Shohe O'Tani how to do his job
1:32.0	Wow
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