Effectively Wild Episode 2050: Sho No
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley lament and discuss Shohei Ohtani’s UCL injury and its ramifications for the rest of his season, his two-way future, his free agency, the Angels, and the continued happiness of baseball fans and podcast co-hosts, followed by conversations about Stephen Strasburg’s retirement (59:17), Wander Franco’s placement on administrative leave (1:11:30), and whether players are required to wear pants (1:21:06), plus a Future Blast from 2050 (1:31:37).
Audio intro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Ben’s Ohtani article
Link to Evan Drellich on Ohtani
Link to Jay Jaffe on the Angels
Link to Sam on the Angels
Link to FA class
Link to Ohtani and Elly
Link to TJS study
Link to Stat Blast on max-effort pitching
Link to Ben on pitcher roster limits
Link to WaPo report on Strasburg
Link to Drellich on Franco
Link to Jeff Passan on Franco
Link to Jay Cuda pants tweet
Link to CBA
Link to high-socks study
Link to Rick Wilber’s website
Link to Future Blast wiki
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| 0:00.0 | The fact of the wild is the only show I'm in. |
| 0:06.4 | Hosted by Ben Lindbergh and Ben Riley. |
| 0:13.3 | But I want to hear it about show me your time. |
| 0:20.3 | Or my travel with free art. |
| 0:24.7 | Hello, and welcome to episode 2050 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs |
| 0:34.0 | presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, joined by Meg |
| 0:39.2 | Rally of Fan Graphs Hello, Meg. |
| 0:41.7 | Hello. |
| 0:42.7 | Well, my whole family has COVID this week, our first time getting it. |
| 0:47.2 | It finally caught up to us after all these years, and I thought that would be the worst |
| 0:51.6 | health-related news that I received this week. |
| 0:55.4 | But I don't know, I'm not sure that it was as bad as it was, we'll be all right, we're |
| 1:00.9 | all pumped full of paxle of it, we're already kind of coming out of it, I think, however, |
| 1:07.1 | not so for my man who feels like a member of my extended family, even though he's not |
| 1:13.1 | aware of that. |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.1 | The worst possible news, the news that I've dreaded every day, every minor little ailment |
| 1:23.2 | that he has had and suffered and transcended, it's always, is there a spring here? |
| 1:30.3 | Is there going to be a UCL issue? |
| 1:33.2 | And yeah, there is, and it happened, and I guess not that literally a painful way, it seems |
| 1:40.1 | like it was more like a discomfort and something doesn't feel right here, but certainly |
| 1:46.0 | painful for everyone, really. |
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