Effectively Wild Episode 2077: Now I’ve Seen Everything
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the end of the NLCS, discuss the discourse surrounding the improbability of and fallout from the Diamondbacks-Rangers World Series matchup, banter about the Brewers always losing in the playoffs to eventual pennant winners, preview the World Series, postulate a conspiracy surrounding this postseason’s lack of extra-inning games, and react to the Red Sox hiring ex-pitcher Craig Breslow as their new Chief Baseball Officer/POBO, then (54:14) Stat Blast about how the World Series and future postseasons might be swayed by a reliever familiarity effect that could counter the pitcher-usage changes caused by the times-through-the-order penalty and restore longer starts, including a chat (1:12:06) with reliever-familiarity-effect researcher Dr. David J. Gordon.
Audio intro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Baumann on NLCS G7
Link to Ben C.’s Series preview
Link to Ginny Searle’s Series preview
Link to Neil Paine’s Series preview
Link to MLB.com on Ginkel
Link to Jay Jaffe on Scherzer
Link to Leo Morgenstern on Semien
Link to tweet about Brewers losses
Link to MLBTR on Breslow
Link to 2017 Breslow article
Link to info on Eovaldi game
Link to Topps Now
Link to Cameron Grove EW episode
Link to Cameron Grove tweet
Link to Cameron Grove study
Link to David Gordon study
Link to Ben’s SP study
Link to Ben on reliever familiarity
Link to D-backs headlines wiki
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| 0:00.0 | Well, the curve balls bend and the home runs fly |
| 0:03.5 | More to the game than meets the eye |
| 0:06.2 | To get the stats compiled and stories piled |
| 0:09.6 | Fans on the internet might get riled |
| 0:12.6 | But we can break it down on effect every wild |
| 0:18.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 2076 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:22.1 | A FanGraph's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:24.9 | I'm Meg Raleigh, a FanGraph's |
| 0:26.2 | And I am joined by Ben Limberg of the Ringer, Ben Hower, you |
| 0:29.6 | I am quite alright, how are you? |
| 0:31.8 | Snakes alive |
| 0:33.8 | They are still alive, it is true |
| 0:36.3 | I, Ben, I am flabbergasted |
| 0:39.8 | I am, I am shocked |
| 0:41.8 | I feel like I've been insorcelled, I've been ben buzled |
| 0:44.8 | I've been shocked, I've been, I've been moved to surprise |
| 0:48.8 | You know? |
| 0:49.3 | You're gonna get to cover a world series |
| 0:50.8 | Oh man, we have to figure out our pods get it over next week |
| 0:53.8 | That's gonna be a problem |
| 0:55.3 | Oh yeah, it's gonna be real rough |
| 0:58.3 | That's not interesting to other people, but us |
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