Effectively Wild Episode 2054: The Prospect-Call-Up Countdown
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a new browser game called Homer Hindsight, where all the players placed on waivers ended up, the White Sox promoting Chris Getz and the continued comeback of the ex-player GM, Brandon Lowe’s Yankees trash talk, whether load management has diminished the grind, updates to the strike zone and pitch clock in Triple-A, and Bernie Williams’s comments about Shohei Ohtani. Then (42:42) they talk to FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen about the wave of top prospects that crested in August (including Noelvi Marte, Ronny Mauricio, Jordan Wicks, Masyn Winn, Jasson Domínguez, Ceddanne Rafaela, Curtis Mead, and Kyle Harrison), the Angels’ and Padres’ aggressive promotions of Nolan Schanuel and Ethan Salas, respectively, prospects who might still debut this season, and the number of prospects named Jackson, followed by (1:31:54) a Future Blast from 2054.
Audio intro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Homer Hindsight
Link to Dan S. on the waiver outcomes
Link to Craig Goldstein on the Angels
Link to Patrick Dubuque on the Angels
Link to tweet about Angels payroll
Link to MLBTR on Getz
Link to Sox Machine on Getz
Link to 2017 Getz podcast
Link to Getz on Vizquel in 2019
Link to Getz on Vizquel in 2023
Link to Defector on Reinsdorf
Link to Reinsdorf Ohtani quote
Link to Lowe trash talk
Link to Russell on the grind
Link to Triple-A rules tweaks
Link to Passan’s pitch-clock tweet
Link to Bernie on Shohei
Link to Rosenthal on Ohtani’s TJ decision
Link to FG top-prospect rankings
Link to story on Mead’s background
Link to Waldrep’s Gators page
Link to story on Salas promotion
Link to Baumann on Schanuel
Link to BA on Schanuel
Link to Domínguez baseball cards story
Link to Mauricio’s first hit
Link to Domínguez’s first homer
Link to Domínguez’s number quote
Link to Yankees uni numbers story
Link to Rick Wilber’s website
Link to Future Blast wiki
Link to One Year
Link to Sports Explains the World
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2054 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Agrelia Fangraphs, and I am joined, as always, and once again, by a kind of froggy Ben Lindbergh, Ben, how are you answered briefly? |
| 0:29.4 | Ribbit. |
| 0:31.4 | It's not great. It's not the best. |
| 0:35.4 | Oh, buddy, I'm sorry. |
| 0:37.4 | Never know what sound is going to come out when I open my mouth these days, but thanks to everyone for bearing with me and tolerating these sounds. |
| 0:45.4 | I am making some sounds because A, we are talking to Eric Long and Hagen later on this episode, so you will be free. |
| 0:54.4 | We have a respite from this voice for a while because we're going to talk about a bunch of top prospects who got called up recently. |
| 1:02.4 | Usually we do the meet-a-major leakers for more obscure guys who would not normally get a ton of national tension, but a whole lot of exciting prospects came up all at once. |
| 1:14.4 | We'll just get Eric on to tell us about all of them. |
| 1:18.4 | If you're a top prospect who made your major leak debut in August, we will probably talk about you with Eric later on. |
| 1:26.4 | For now, I must say, I am obsessed with Homer Hindsight, Homer Hindsight.com. |
| 1:33.4 | You know, I'm not an immaculate grid guy or generally any sort of daily words or puzzle game guy, but Homer Hindsight, which I believe is a new website. |
| 1:46.4 | It's been making the rounds recently. It was created by one Connor Callahan, and it's this game you play in your browser where you have to assess whether it was a Homer or not. |
| 1:59.4 | It shows you probably not randomly selected clip, probably selected in some way that makes this difficult to do. |
| 2:09.4 | It shows you the contact, you see the pitch, you see the swing, you see the ball come off the bat, and then it cuts off the clip. |
| 2:17.4 | It's just a gift that plays over and over again. You just have to say, was it a Homer or was it not? |
| 2:24.4 | And the goal is just to get the longest streak that you can. Now, I don't think I'm very good at this. I've learned this is difficult. |
| 2:34.4 | I would have thought I'd be decent at this, but I'm now questioning myself every time I select one because I've been wrong often enough. |
| 2:43.4 | It feels like to get a very long streak, you really feel accomplished or at least I do. |
| 2:50.4 | I'm looking at the leaderboard right now, and there are people who have like in the 20s and then in the 50s. |
| 2:58.4 | Wow, I can't imagine like maybe that's, that's got to be that's a bot. That's that's Connor Callahan himself. I don't know. I don't know how you could do that, but I rarely get very far in my streaks. |
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