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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2023: What’s Past Blast is Prologue

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh addresses an interview upgrade on the preceding episode, chats with FanGraphs’ Dan Szymborski about Luis Arraez’s chances of batting .400, Stat Blasts (22:36) about extremes in team winning and losing streaks, welcomes in David Lewis (28:00) for the final Past Blast, and talks to prolific science fiction (and baseball science fiction) author Rick Wilber (44:48) about being the son of big leaguer Del Wilber, his career and love for baseball and sci-fi, and the podcast’s forthcoming Future Blast series, plus a postscript (1:26:00) about Tyler Wells and Taylor Walls, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, Rob Manfred and public ballpark funding, contentious plays at the plate, and a new walk-up-music database.

Audio intro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Carleton interview episode
Link to MLB.com on Arraez
Link to Dan on Arraez
Link to Statcast park factors
Link to Foolish thread on AVG+
Link to AVG+ leaderboard
Link to story about Reds’ latest win
Link to Reds streak fun fact
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to longest in-season-streaks sheet
Link to more streaks data
Link to Past Blast EW wiki page
Link to 2023 Past Blast source
Link to Ben on the pitch clock
Link to Ben on the pitch clock again
Link to B-Ref’s new rules page
Link to Rickwood Field story
Link to Hinchliffe Stadium story
Link to first Dick Trueman episode
Link to second Dick Trueman episode
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Rick Wilber’s website
Link to Wilber’s baseball works
Link to My Father’s Game
Link to Del Wilber’s SABR bio
Link to Lucky Starr wiki
Link to Wade/Ward wiki
Link to Trout/Betts interview
Link to Trout/Ohtani at-bat
Link to Bochy ejection video
Link to Melvin ejection video
Link to the NYT on plate-blocking
Link to Heim’s replay-review gesture
Link to Manfred’s Time interview
Link to scholars survey on funding
Link to story on the Astros comment
Link to trade trees site
Link to trade values site
Link to thread on walk-up-songs site
Link to MLB walk-up-songs site
Link to The Walk-Up Database
Link to walk-up-site requests thread

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0:00.0

A baseball podcast, analytics and stats, we're band and meg, from fame graphs, effective

0:16.0

Like and subscribe and click, Thank you, R

0:22.9

E

0:23.4

Law

0:29.7

Hello, and welcome to Episode 23 of Effectively Wild, A Baseball podcast from

0:37.8

Vandis, the stream's girl and meme makers who I have such an understanding of what

0:44.4

to grab bag of an episode for you, but I think it'll be a fun one.

0:47.7

First things first, on our last episode, episode 2022, we had some sound quality issues in

0:52.8

the first segment, my conversation with Russell Carlton of baseball perspectives about the

0:57.1

reds and his new book, The New Ball Game.

0:59.6

Russell's sound was muffled, tough to make out at points, apologies for that.

1:03.5

However, after the initial posting of the episode, we did re-edit and re-upload a new version

1:08.2

that is much easier on the ears.

1:10.0

I informed our Patreon supporters and put notices on Twitter and Reddit and in the discord

1:15.0

group and in the Facebook group, but I wanted to make sure everyone was aware, and so I'm

1:18.7

mentioning it here.

1:19.6

So if you did download that one immediately, but you haven't gotten to it yet, or you

1:22.9

didn't make it through that segment, please do delete and re-download the episode.

1:26.9

I'm pretty sure a more garbled version of an interview won't make it a collector's item.

1:30.8

In the current version, Russell is much more intelligible, which is good, because you wouldn't

1:34.2

want to miss a word that Russell Carlton says.

1:36.2

Here's the plan for today.

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