Effectively Wild Episode 2075: Right-Hands Man
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about ALCS and NLCS action, the definition of an “unanswered run,” and a forthcoming documentary about Shohei Ohtani, then (51:16) answer listener emails about a playoff hot-hand theory, how bad an underdog would have to be for a postseason upset to shock them, and a pitcher with two right hands, plus a Stat Blast (1:20:57) about the least and most exciting postseasons ever and a follow-up (1:38:42) about Friday’s games.
Audio intro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to FG post on NLCS Game 3
Link to FG post on ALCS Game 4
Link to John Middleton video
Link to Carleton on pulling pitchers
Link to LIDOM preview
Link to Ohtani documentary news
Link to Rob Mains on playoff upsets
Link to Dan S. on playoff success
Link to AI image of hands
Link to EW listener emails database
Link to Topps Now
Link to WPA/cWPA data
Link to Kenny Jackelen’s Twitter
Link to series-length data
Link to Michael Mountain’s Twitter
Link to lead-change data
Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter
Link to FG post on ALCS Game 5
Link to FG post on NLCS Game 4
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | L'automne, le staglaste, l'avis pour les sociétés, les avis, paye dans, les super oufettes, |
| 0:10.5 | je pense qu'on sait affectifly cool, je pense qu'on sait affectifly wild, affectifment |
| 0:20.4 | sovage, affectifment sovage. |
| 0:33.4 | Hello and welcome to Episode 2075 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:38.4 | a baseball podcast from Vangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters, |
| 0:42.4 | I am Ben Limberg, of the ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Vangraphs Hello Meg. |
| 0:47.4 | We've got ourselves some series here. |
| 0:52.4 | We do, we have, we have some series, I mean we technically had series before Ben, |
| 0:58.4 | we had them, they were in our grasp, but now they are more competitive, |
| 1:03.4 | they are in one case evenly matched. |
| 1:06.4 | They featured a route, they also featured a controversial pitching change, |
| 1:13.4 | which I am so happy was not decisive because I find myself exhausted of this particular discourse, |
| 1:19.4 | but here I am furthering it, so you know who's the sucker, it's probably me. |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah, well last time we talked it looked like there might be sweeps everywhere, |
| 1:28.4 | we looked, it looked like these csss might be over early, |
| 1:32.4 | and now not so much we're recording on Friday morning, |
| 1:36.4 | so of course there will be more games on Friday, |
| 1:39.4 | and so we will stick to what has happened in our part of the timeline here, |
| 1:44.4 | but we have an even css as we speak, and we have the Diamondbacks winning a game. |
| 1:50.4 | They won a game. |
| 1:52.4 | So you were at that game, |
| 1:56.4 | and it was one of the better games of these playoffs, |
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