Effectively Wild Episode 2092: Hall Pass
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about listeners’ end-of-year podcast stats, the reported “progress” in Padres-Yankees trade talks concerning Juan Soto, some recent Reds and Mets moves, a possible extension for Brewers prospect Jackson Chourio and the track record of extensions signed before a player’s MLB debut, and several end-of-season MLB awards (past and present) that you may not have heard of. Then (50:07) they talk to FanGraphs senior writer and The Cooperstown Casebook author Jay Jaffe about this year’s Era Committee and BBWAA Hall of Fame candidates, recent voting trends, the 20th anniversary of JAWS, adjustments for framing and decreasing pitcher workloads, the shrinking electorate, and more.
Audio intro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Vulture on Elemental
Link to first report about Soto
Link to second report about Soto
Link to FG post on Severino
Link to FG post on Pagán
Link to FG post on Martinez
Link to Ben C. on TV contracts
Link to RosterResource payroll page
Link to FG SP projections
Link to 2023 FG SP WAR
Link to MLBTR on Chourio
Link to list of pre-debut deals
Link to Sam on extensions
Link to baseball awards wiki
Link to awards named after players
Link to Canadian Baseball HoF episode
Link to The Cooperstown Casebook
Link to JAWS wiki
Link to JAWS at B-Ref
Link to EW guests spreadsheet
Link to Jay on managers, umps, execs
Link to Joe West on EW
Link to Pollis on secret ballots
Link to Jay’s profiles schedule
Link to Jay on the BBWAA ballot
Link to Stark on Wright
Link to Max Marchi on framing
Link to Jay on framing
Link to Ben on framing
Link to Dan Hayes interview
Link to Ben on Piazza’s defense
Link to Max Marchi on framing
Link to Jay on S-JAWS
Link to HoF Ballot Tracker
Link to Thibodaux on EW
Link to crowdsourced FG ballots
Link to Ben’s voting explanation
Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Number one fangrass, baseball, podcast, this stag cast and stat blabs. |
| 0:09.4 | T. OPS Plus, when the stats, date contracts, zips and steam before the forecast. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2092 of Effectively Wild Baseball Podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:25.7 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fangrass. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello. |
| 0:31.2 | So it's Spotify wrapped and Apple Music replay and Pocket Cast playback season. |
| 0:38.0 | So it's the time of year when we get lots of tweets from people who have listened to us a lot which is always |
| 0:44.6 | nice always flattering always sort of scary to see always terrifying oh yeah like |
| 0:49.8 | deeply terrifying was gonna to be my next, |
| 0:52.8 | is the next word out of my mouth, yeah. |
| 0:55.1 | Yes, to see how long people have spent listening to us, |
| 0:58.3 | but also I suppose how long we've spent talking |
| 1:00.8 | because we have to do that before they can hear it and that's what I was |
| 1:04.5 | going to say I feel like if we're in your top five we're usually number one now |
| 1:09.2 | maybe people just aren't tweeting at me or at EwPod on Twitter as often if we're four or five or something, |
| 1:16.1 | but it seems like we're usually at the very tippy top and I feel like we've kind of |
| 1:20.9 | game the system for these end of year recap situations because... |
| 1:27.0 | So many episodes? |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, because... |
| 1:30.0 | We do three substantial episodes every week, week in and week out, without fail. |
| 1:37.0 | And so I feel like that propels us to the top. |
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