Effectively Wild Episode 2066: Moral Tarpitude
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani’s (finally) leagues-leading jersey sales, Mets grounds crew shenanigans, and shrinking minor leaguers, then (28:18) answer listener emails about restructured pitching staffs on which everyone would throw 3-to-4 innings at a time, a speed limit for pitches, displaying error bars for WAR, allowing outfielders only a certain number of catches per game (plus info on secret natural lefties), and a pitcher who reliably gets stronger as the game goes on, followed (1:20:03) by a guest Stat Blast on the not-nice improbability of the Twins’ playoff losing streak by Chris Hanel, maker of the new YouTube documentary “The Minnesota Twins and the Cruelest Streak in Sports.”
Audio intro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to 2023 jersey-sales ranking
Link to 2021 jersey-sales ranking
Link to 2018 jersey-sales ranking
Link to grounds crew story
Link to Schumaker video
Link to Longenhagen on heights
Link to shrunk/shrank pedantry thread
Link to Laurila on the Rays
Link to Petriello on the Rays
Link to restrictor plate article
Link to Ben on smaller pitching staffs
Link to EW Episode 449
Link to BP DRC+ SDs
Link to info on natural lefties
Link to baseball bounce catches
Link to EW emails database
Link to Topps Now cards
Link to Twins Topps Now archive
Link to EW guests archive
Link to Chris on score bugs
Link to Twins playoff results
Link to Chris’s Twins doc
Link to Chris’s Twins blog post
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Where do you go in a world of bad taste? |
| 0:06.0 | For the good taste on baseball and life |
| 0:11.0 | With a balance of analytics and humor |
| 0:18.0 | Philosophical music |
| 0:24.0 | Effectively wild |
| 0:39.0 | Hello and welcome to Episode 26 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:44.0 | A baseball podcast from Vancras presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:48.0 | I am Ben Van Berg of the ringer joined as usual |
| 0:51.0 | Almost as always by Meg Rally of Vancras |
| 0:53.0 | Hello Meg |
| 0:54.0 | Hello |
| 0:55.0 | Someone pointed out I think in the Discord group that we often say as always |
| 0:59.0 | If we're going to be pedantic about things which often we are |
| 1:03.0 | Not technically true, each of us is an episode from now and then |
| 1:07.0 | So we're not always joining the other |
| 1:09.0 | We're overwhelmingly joined by... |
| 1:12.0 | Maybe that's what we should say |
| 1:15.0 | I am Meg Rally of Vancras and I am joined overwhelmingly often by Ben Lemberg of the ringer |
| 1:20.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 1:22.0 | Doing great |
| 1:23.0 | That works |
| 1:24.0 | Alright |
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