Effectively Wild Episode 2019: Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Sportswriters
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani leading MLB in WAR and the number of times his hitting has leapfrogged his pitching or vice versa, the EW audience’s verdict on who won the pod’s recent 26-under-25 draft, the suddenly-quite-competitive A’s-Royals race for the worst record in baseball, a painful ending to a college playoff game and the evolving conversation about pitch counts for college starters, the pitch clock’s impact on performance and injuries, one potential downside to the pitch clock reaching NPB, the Diamondbacks’ “victory vest,” and The Athletic’s layoffs and the state of sports media, plus a Past Blast from 2019.
Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Ohtani’s first homer
Link to Ohtani’s second homer
Link to MLB.com on tired Ohtani
Link to The Athletic on tired Ohtani
Link to FG WAR leaderboard
Link to B-Ref WAR leaderboard
Link to 26-under-25 draft
Link to draft voting results
Link to Carroll/Henderson awards
Link to Royals/A’s post
Link to Rob Mains on mobility
Link to tweet about college game ending
Link to college TOOTBLAN
Link to college dropped ball
Link to Cooper on pitch counts
Link to Jake on Mathews
Link to longer thread on Mathews
Link to Romano’s quote tweet
Link to 2016 study on college workloads
Link to 2018 college workloads study
Link to Dan S. on the pitch clock
Link to Jim Allen on the NPB clock
Link to report on the NPB clock
Link to victory vest story
Link to MLB’s Realmuto tweet
Link to “cyclone” tweet
Link to hockey’s “three stars”
Link to FG’s three players of the game
Link to WaPo’s The Athletic report
Link to FOS The Athletic report
Link to 2017 story about The Athletic
Link to Axios media newsletter
Link to 2019 Past Blast source
Link to 2015 robot-ump game
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to MLBTR on the Nevada vote
Link to Pujols hiring post
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How can you not be a dead dead? |
| 0:11.0 | A stabblast will keep you distracted |
| 0:15.0 | It's a long-soughted death but the sure to make you smile |
| 0:22.0 | This is effective in one |
| 0:26.0 | This is effective in one |
| 0:32.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2019 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.0 | a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer |
| 0:43.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:44.0 | I'm doing better as you can probably hear |
| 0:47.0 | A little bit better, not 100% but a little less congested than I have been for most of the past week |
| 0:53.0 | You've exited your Betty Davis phase |
| 0:56.0 | I hope so, yeah, good for me and also good for our listeners' prep places |
| 1:00.0 | I don't have to inflict that voice on Dempetti WarFred |
| 1:03.0 | Thank you all for bearing with me |
| 1:06.0 | You should have sung songs from the MoPitchowley and Ben Kermit |
| 1:11.0 | You could have entered a Kermit in the register maybe |
| 1:16.0 | I still am largely on vocal rest except when I'm doing podcasts |
| 1:19.0 | which is basically every day on one podcast or another |
| 1:22.0 | but just a lot of protracted silences and then speaking very animatedly |
| 1:27.0 | I'm on a podcast that I'm entertaining people and then I go back to being quiet for hours on end |
| 1:32.0 | Ben, you know what Kermit would say? |
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