Effectively Wild Episode 2037: Ashes to Ashes, Draft to Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a J.P. France postgame quote and ballplayer clichés, the death of first overall pick Mike Ivie, and how Masataka Yoshida’s debut season stacks up to the MLB rookie years of other ex-NPB stars, answer emails (36:57) about Mike Trout’s and Shohei Ohtani’s futures, a Trout/Hunter Renfroe trade deadline scheme (with a bonus Meg movie pitch), undoing pre-pitch-clock time-saving measures, and batters catching pitches to knock pitchers out of games, plus Stat Blasts (1:19:13) about robot umps in Triple-A, the most top 100 prospects to debut for one team in a season (or a two-season span), and Immaculate Grid efficiency, followed by a Future Blast (1:47:08) from 2037.
Audio intro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to France quote
Link to Ivie obit
Link to other Ivie obit
Link to Louise Levy obit
Link to NYT on Levy
Link to Ivie wiki
Link to 1980 Ivie article
Link to Athletic mental health article
Link to more on mental health
Link to Laurila on Yoshida
Link to ex-NPB rookie batting leaders
Link to Renfroe/Renfrow article
Link to Seinfeld clip
Link to Realmuto catch
Link to EW emails database
Link to ABS splits
Link to ABS AP article
Link to ABS Athletic article
Link to Manfred on ABS
Link to pitcher thread on ABS
Link to one-season prospect debuts
Link to two-season prospect debuts
Link to Immaculate Grid
Link to Chris’s Immaculate Grid sheet
Link to travelling salesman problem
Link to Rick Wilber’s website
Link to Sasaki story
Link to Maggi EW episode
Link to MLBTR on Maggi
Link to SAG-AFTRA podcast info
Link to TV ratings info
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's effective in wild and it's wildly effective. |
| 0:05.0 | It couldn't be fall in perfect perspective. |
| 0:08.0 | It's a present, it's smart and a pack of pre-styled. |
| 0:11.0 | It's the wildly effective, effectively wild. |
| 0:14.0 | It's been a long, long chamber. |
| 0:18.0 | That event war. |
| 0:21.0 | You might hear something you never heard before. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2037 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:32.0 | a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh of Fan Graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ring or Ben. |
| 0:39.0 | How are you? |
| 0:40.0 | OK, I was just reflecting on a quote by Astros Rookie picture JP France, |
| 0:46.0 | who pitched in a game that the Astros won the other day, did well, |
| 0:50.0 | and after the game he said, you've got to go out there and just take every game as it is. |
| 0:56.0 | It's not the same as the one that's coming up. |
| 0:59.0 | It's not the same as the one that just happened. |
| 1:02.0 | JP France. |
| 1:03.0 | I mean, true. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, that's how I think about this podcast. |
| 1:08.0 | Really, you've got to go out there and take every episode as it is. |
| 1:11.0 | It's not the same as the one that's coming up. |
| 1:14.0 | It's not the same as the one that just happened, |
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