Effectively Wild Episode 2111: Insider Fading
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and listener Michael Mountain banter about Michael’s proposal for Effectively Wild listener ballpark meetups during the 2024 MLB season, followed by (7:24) Michael’s guest Stat Blasts about the best non-award-winning players, his all-time player tiers, and Hall of Famers (and HoF candidates) who excelled or flopped at leading their leagues at their respective positions. Then (36:17) Ben and Meg talk to Brian Moritz about his prediction/warning that a major sports-betting journalism scandal could be coming.
Audio intro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to listener-meetup form
Link to Michael on Episode 1263
Link to undecorated players sheet
Link to EW Episode 964
Link to Bill James proposal
Link to reworked tiers
Link to league leaders sheet
Link to Hall of Stats shutdown
Link to Eight Men Out wiki
Link to Brian’s Nieman Lab piece
Link to Brian’s 2022 piece
Link to Brian at St. Bonaventure
Link to Sports Media Guy
Link to WSJ on journalist inside info
Link to story on BBWAA rules
Link to story on ESPN rules
Link to story on Chams
Link to newsroom betting policies
Link to tweet about Curb betting
Link to “fading” definition
Link to MLBTR on Stroman
Link to over/under draft results
Link to Ben on arbitration
Link to Stat Blast song cover
Link to all Stat Blast covers
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| 0:00.0 | Effect Wiles, effectively Wiles. |
| 0:07.0 | Effectively Wiles. |
| 0:10.0 | Effectively Wiles. Effectively Wiles. effectively wild. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 2111 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:24.7 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of fan graphs. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello! |
| 0:30.1 | And we are a trio. We are joined by Michael Mountain, who has been with us a few times before over the years. |
| 0:38.0 | He is a Patreon supporter. He is a listener. He is an occasional contributor. Hello Michael. |
| 0:42.0 | Hi, thanks for having me back again. He is an occasional contributor. Hello Michael. |
| 0:42.8 | Hi, thanks for having me back again. |
| 0:44.7 | Happy to have you back. |
| 0:45.4 | We're sort of doing this episode backwards. |
| 0:48.2 | We are boldly exploring new orders in which to do Stapelas and interviews. |
| 0:55.0 | So later on this episode, Meg and I will be talking to Brian Moritz, |
| 0:59.7 | who is a professor at St. Bonaventure in Sports Journalism and Digital Journalism, the author of |
| 1:05.2 | Sports Media Guy, a sports journalism and sports media substack. |
| 1:09.2 | He wrote a piece with the provocative title, A Major Sports major sports betting journalism scandal is coming. |
| 1:14.6 | And so we're going to talk to him about that. |
| 1:16.3 | Why this risk exists, why it's worrisome, what can be done about it, whether anyone will |
| 1:20.7 | think of the children, which might not sound like the lightest topic, but we had some fun with it. |
| 1:25.5 | We had a nice lively conversation about the existential threats facing our industry. |
| 1:30.7 | But we wanted to start with something a little more basebally and Michael you are |
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