Effectively Wild Episode 2051: Bunts and Balks and Passed Balls, Oh My
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2023
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about how late it is in the season and a fan’s exuberant reaction to the only known unassisted outfield triple play in major or minor league history, answer listener emails (15:17) about Shohei Ohtani 2.0 and whether “bulk guys” could stave off extinction for 300-game winners, Stat Blast (38:11) about standings-related fun facts, precedents for the Mariners rapidly erasing a 10-game deficit in the AL West, team droughts in back-to-back-to-belly homers, non-All-Star MVPs, bunting by count, this season’s uptick in balks, Gunnar Henderson and the passing-up-the-cycle club, and a wild pitch/passed ball mystery, plus a Future Blast from 2051 (1:49:48) and a few follow-ups (1:52:30).
Audio intro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to MLBTR on Brentz
Link to Craig on the triple play
Link to Pages From Baseball’s Past
Link to ITYSL
Link to Ringer ITYSL ranking
Link to listener emails database
Link to Sam on Ruth/Ohtani
Link to story on Ohtani MRI
Link to Ben on Yarbrough
Link to “bulk guy” origin story
Link to story on Verlander and 300
Link to Evan’s team streaks data
Link to last-place NYY/NYM
Link to thread on Yanks 10-loss streak
Link to Ben on competitive balance
Link to EW Episode 1354
Link to ALW division odds graph
Link to 1982 Braves doc
Link to team HR streaks data
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to Marlins 3-HR game
Link to team 4-HR streaks
Link to Ben on Padres stars
Link to non-All-Star MVPs
Link to bunt data
Link to Belt bunt attempt
Link to McGuire bunt
Link to Grisham bunt attempt
Link to Rojas bunt
Link to team balk leaders
Link to league balk totals
Link to WP/PB/balks data
Link to Rob Mains on ’88 balks
Link to ’88 article on balks
Link to 2023 article on balks
Link to skipped cycles data
Link to Henderson post
Link to Henderson video
Link to Henderson game story
Link to story on Fuld
Link to list of Gunnar games
Link to 2001 Frye story
Link to Frye tweet
Link to Foxx’s cycle game
Link to 1933 cycle citation
Link to Ben on sticky stuff
Link to WP/PB totals
Link to Cooper on one-knee catching
Link to Cooper on one-knee catching 2
Link to Cooper on one-knee catching 3
Link to WaPo on the 2022 ball
Link to game-reenactment EW email
Link to Russ Hodges call
Link to Rick Wilber’s website
Link to Future Blast wiki
Link to Strasburg salary report
Link to Passan violations tweet
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| 0:00.0 | Chris Davis 247 Tattoos are the new nominees. Scott Boris nodical analogies or tragedies. Keep |
| 0:06.5 | them honest. Room, room. Here's your primer. On Beef Boys, baseball's in, Roger Angel and |
| 0:12.3 | Super Pretzels. Linny is asked to deal with my trout hypotheticals, waiting for the perfect |
| 0:17.8 | bat from a volcanic eruption. Ladies and gentlemen, the Effectively Wild Introduction. |
| 0:22.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 2051 of Effectively Wild, a fangirlous baseball podcast brought to you |
| 0:27.7 | by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Raleigh, a fangirlous and I am joined as always by Ben |
| 0:32.1 | Lindbergh of The Ring or Ben. How are you feeling? I'm feeling not too bad. I'm feeling better. Yeah. |
| 0:37.8 | Okay. Coming out of the COVID now. Okay. I did have a realization today. It suddenly struck me |
| 0:44.2 | that it's getting fairly late in the year. Baseball was that it's we're in the dog days here. |
| 0:50.6 | And you know, there's still what five weeks, almost five weeks of baseball left. But we've reached |
| 0:55.4 | the stage of the season where not so serious injuries are described as season ending. |
| 1:02.8 | That's always a milestone. It's like, oh, we're getting there now because that would not have |
| 1:07.6 | been season ending earlier. I just saw an MLB Trade Rumors update about a Royals reliever named |
| 1:14.2 | Jake Brents, whom I had not devoted a lot of thought to this season. What? Yeah, no, I haven't |
| 1:21.4 | dwelt on Jake Brents, but for a good reason, I guess, which is that he's been out all year. He |
| 1:27.2 | had Tommy John surgery last year. And so he's been on the road back from that. And he started a |
| 1:32.8 | minor league rehab assignment last week. But now he has sustained a lat string. And so they're |
| 1:40.0 | shutting him down for the season with a season ending lat string. So we've reached the season ending |
| 1:45.6 | lat string stage of the season. I don't know whether that's because he's also coming back from |
| 1:51.4 | elbow injury or not. But lat strings, sometimes they can be a minimum stay on the IL. Sometimes they |
| 1:57.3 | can be an extended stay. But the median, I guess, is probably long enough that at this point, |
| 2:04.1 | you figure, yeah, I guess you're, you're done now. So this is like the lat string stage. And then |
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