Effectively Wild Episode 2060: Let’s Not Be Too Heston

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and Patreon supporter Max Harris banter about Ben’s problems remembering Orioles rookie Heston Kjerstad’s name, Baltimore’s lookalike offensive core, and Max’s history with the podcast and baseball, then (18:22) answer listener emails about seat fillers at MLB games, hypothetical players “Mr. Repeat” and “Mr. First Time,” centralizing MLB R&D, systemic vs. individual explanations for changes in the game, instituting minimum and maximum pitch counts, Kyle Schwarber vs. Nick Ahmed, the good-but-disappointing Blue Jays, the Mariners’ streak of not losing by a lot, and Theo Epstein pedantry, plus a Future Blast (1:27:39) from 2059 and a follow-up (1:30:31) about a tiered Hall of Fame.

Audio intro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to first tweet about Orioles
Link to second tweet about Orioles
Link to Swanson/Culberson story
Link to The Athletic on tech spending
Link to Scouting Bureau story
Link to Ben on Scout School
Link to Swanson interview episode
Link to Ben on Dunn and Pierre
Link to Ben on defense vs. offense
Link to offense vs. defense spending
Link to Ben on pitcher limits
Link to no-blowouts streaks
Link to Sam Kennedy quote
Link to listener emails database
Link to Rick Wilber’s website
Link to Future Blast wiki
Link to Kjerstad homer
Link to Bill James proposal
Link to Hall of Stats
Link to career tiers sheet

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0:00.0	Here's your primer on Beef Boys, baseball's in, Roger Angel, and Super Pretzes.
0:05.7	Linny is asked to deal with my trout hypotheticals, waiting for the perfect bat from a volcanic
0:10.7	corruption.
0:11.7	Ladies and gentlemen, the Effect of the Wild Introduction.
0:14.5	Hello and welcome to episode 2060 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangrass
0:22.6	presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg
0:27.2	Rally of Fangrass.
0:28.2	Hello Meg.
0:29.3	Hello.
0:30.3	We are also joined by one of those Patreon supporters who is presenting this podcast.
0:35.2	He is appearing and presenting at the same time.
0:38.9	Max Harris, welcome to Effectively Wild.
0:41.4	Welcome, thanks for having me.
0:43.0	You welcomed us.
0:44.2	We welcome you, Max.
0:46.4	This is our podcast.
0:47.4	You're our guest, but we're very happy to have you.
0:50.0	And we're also happy to have you or at least someone close to you as a Patreon supporter.
0:56.0	We will get into that, but this is one of our Patreon upper tier, mic trout tier guests
1:01.6	that we are pleased to welcome on from time to time.
1:04.4	And we will talk to Max more in a moment about his history with the podcast and with baseball.
1:09.3	And then of course, we will answer some emails.
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