Effectively Wild Episode 2087: Best in Sho

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the possible significance of this year’s unanimous award votes, the public unveiling of Shohei Ohtani’s dog, what they learned (and didn’t learn) from the new ESPN documentary Shohei Ohtani: Beyond the Dream (21:42), and where they’d prefer for Ohtani to sign (1:01:16). Then (1:10:42) they conduct the ninth […]

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0:00.0	effectively wild. Effect Wild.
0:20.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2087 of Effectively Wild, a baseball
0:25.2	podcast from Van Grafts presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben
0:29.4	Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg rally of fan graphs hello Meg.
0:34.0	Hello.
0:34.9	We started yesterday's episode by talking about a unanimous vote,
0:39.1	owners unanimously approving the A's move to Las Vegas.
0:43.0	So maybe we can start this time by talking about a less depressing unanimous vote,
0:48.0	AL MVP voters unanimously approving of Shohei O'Hohy-utani.
0:52.0	I guess we could say the same about NL MVP voters unanimously approving of Ronald
0:56.0	Acuna Jr. Yes, we could indeed. Lots of unanimity this week. We speculated on our first episode this week about whether all of the
1:04.7	major player award votes would be unanimous the winners that is and they
1:10.2	almost all were except for two Blake Snell dissenters on the N.
1:16.2	Sae Young ballot.
1:18.2	That was it.
1:19.2	Otherwise, Cole unanimous and Rookie of the Years, unanimous and Acunya and Otani unanimous and this is the
1:27.9	first player Otani to win an MVP unanimously more than once and it's also the first year that both
1:35.8	MVP winners have been unanimous so this must mean something right There must be some significance to this. Maybe this is
1:45.7	stat blastable, but there's got to be more homogeneity in voting these days for various reasons. I don't know if that's good or bad.
1:55.0	It certainly made me even less interested than usual in the reveals this week
2:00.8	just because there was such a lack of suspense but I would imagine
2:04.5	that there's something to that. Do you think that you would have enjoyed it more if
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