Effectively Wild Episode 2047: This Podcast Now Competes in the Big Ten
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
With Ben Lindbergh still in Sweden, FanGraphs’ Michael Baumann takes the co-host chair for a spin. He and Meg Rowley begin (2:10) by delighting in a picture of Lance Lynn and Enrique Hernández from Dodgers photo day, then take advantage of Ben’s absence to discuss (7:30) college baseball and how conference realignment might affect the sport (and the athletes who play it). They then turn their attention (32:13) to Cole Hamels, who recently retired, and FĂ©lix Hernández, who was recently inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame. Meg and Michael discuss what Hernández and Hamels meant to each of them, the similarities (and important differences) that marked their respective Hall of the Very Good careers, and what it’s like to have a pitcher ruin a pitch for you. Meg and Michael also discuss (51:00) the most impressive players and tools they’ve seen in person, including Fernando Tatis Jr., Corbin Carroll, and Aaron Judge, plus center field defense and big power. Finally, they close with a Future Blast from 2047 (1 hr 06 min).
Audio intro: The GagnĂ©s, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Dodgers photo day photos
Link to Michael on Lance Lynn’s first Dodgers start
Link to Michael on conference realignment
Link to Teddy Cahill on conference realignment
Link to Michael on Cole Hamels’ retirement
Link to Meg on FĂ©lix Hernández’s final Mariners start
Link to Hamels and Hernández’s career stats
Link to Rick Wilber’s website
Link to Future Blast wiki
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| 0:00.0 | Générique |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2047 of Effectively Wild, a fan graph space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.0 | I may rally a fan graphs and Ben is still in, you know, the cold north. |
| 0:46.0 | I don't know what the temperatures are like in Sweden this time of year, but he is not here to pod. |
| 0:50.0 | And so I am joined today by a fan graph's own Ben's former ringer MLB show co-host Michael Bellman. |
| 0:58.0 | Bellman, how are you? |
| 0:59.0 | I'm the next best thing. You just called me Ben before we started. |
| 1:03.0 | It's okay. I just finished recording an episode of the ringer F1 show with the other mag |
| 1:08.0 | who used to edit a mag schuster. So I'm not going to get your name wrong. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, for Tuesday's episode, Ben Clemens joined me in place of... |
| 1:17.0 | Ben Lemberg is other Ben this week, you know. We have all these Ben's floating around. |
| 1:21.0 | And on this pod he tends to be, you know, like prime Ben. |
| 1:24.0 | But while he's gone, he is other Ben and Ben Clemens joined me. |
| 1:28.0 | And so I think I was just on a Ben role. |
| 1:31.0 | No, you were on a Ben Der. |
| 1:34.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:36.0 | Because Zinga, we're doing puns. |
| 1:39.0 | And we're going to talk about college baseball and open defiance of my co-host wishes. |
| 1:44.0 | Although Ben, other Ben leans into puns every now and again, I guess I should say. |
| 1:48.0 | We're going to talk about a couple of things today. |
| 1:50.0 | We're going to talk about the spectre of sports conference realignment. |
| 1:55.0 | And perhaps some favorite, remember some guys. |
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