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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2016: We’ve Got Good News and Bad News

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s voice, the arrival of Elly De La Cruz, the similarities between the up-and-coming Reds and Pirates, whether we need a “super-error,” Aaron Judge’s ball- and wall-smashing abilities, the plights of Alek Manoah and Stephen Strasburg, the wonder of Luis Arraez, whether this year’s trade deadline will be dead, follow-ups on the Angels’ catchers, Ben Joyce’s fastball, and Albert Pujols’s employment, how the pitch clock could affect players’ stamina in the second half, and more, plus a Past Blast from 2016 (1:34:00) and a few updates (1:38:25), including thoughts on Jacob deGrom’s diagnosis.

Audio intro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Alex Eichler, “Wild Shift

Link to MLBTR on Elly
Link to Rosenthal/Judge interview
Link to Red Sox/Rays play
Link to Sox errors montage
Link to FARTSLAM post
Link to Knoblauch FARTSLAM
Link to Stark on Judge
Link to story on Judge and the wall
Link to McCray catch video
Link to Judge dachshund video
Link to Judge/Rizzo doxie article
Link to Judge/Rizzo doxie shirt tweet
Link to Judge/Rizzo doxie shirt photo
Link to Manoah gamer
Link to MLBTR on Manoah
Link to Dan S. on Manoah
Link to Halladay’s rebuild
Link to Strasburg article
Link to Baumann on Arraez
Link to B-Ref baserunning page
Link to xWOBA overperformers
Link to xBA overperformers
Link to Arraez’s 2019-22 BA-xBA
Link to Arraez fun fact 1
Link to Arraez fun fact 2
Link to Arraez fun fact 3
Link to Arraez fun fact 4
Link to Young on the deadline
Link to MLB.com on the deadline
Link to team catcher offense
Link to highest-FA% pitchers
Link to BP on Joyce
Link to MLBTR on Pujols
Link to Blum on Pujols
Link to 2016 Past Blast source
Link to MLB committee report
Link to early-2016 Ben article
Link to mid-2016 Ben article
Link to baseball drag values
Link to De La Cruz gamer
Link to Clemens on HFA
Link to Judge fence article
Link to MLBTR on deGrom
Link to deGrom interview video

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0:00.0

Things fall with different, I differ on a beat.

0:04.4

Players grow and fed off, sending field ball to the tree.

0:09.0

Anything is fair game, you keep case that it pants.

0:13.2

And maybe if you lucky will, call by the chance.

0:18.2

You never know precisely where it's gonna go by definition.

0:25.0

Effectively wild.

0:27.0

Hello and welcome to episode 2016 of Effectively Wild.

0:31.6

A baseball podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters.

0:35.6

I'm Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, joined by McRally of Fangrass, Hello Meg.

0:39.4

Hello.

0:40.4

I sound froggy today.

0:42.6

I didn't even realize that.

0:44.2

I've been on vocal rests basically the entire day in preparation for this podcast

0:49.0

because I'm sort of under the weather as is my wife.

0:52.0

And so we've both been communicating via hand gestures mostly.

0:57.0

So it's been largely silent in our household, our den of illness today.

1:02.4

And I was trying to save my voice until we started the podcast.

1:06.2

And I wasn't actually sure how I would sound today.

1:08.6

And now I have discovered that this is how I would sound.

1:11.6

So I guess I've got an extra deep resonant thing going on here.

1:16.0

But I've also got a, oh, he sounds sick thing going on here.

1:19.6

Yeah, it's your flu game.

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