Effectively Wild Episode 2113: Just Like They Scripted It
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2024
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and Patreon supporter Nick Taber banter about Nick’s baseball background and MLB’s most hated teams, then (19:41) answer listener emails about baseball’s newsbreakers as secret newsmakers, a baseball mercenary who plays for multiple teams in the same city (or who has it out for one particular opponent), whether we would remember the year with the last perfect game, making early playoff rounds longer than late rounds, a player whose stats improve depending on how much money he’s paid, allowing teams to choose the number of defenders in the field, picking the preferred way for Shohei Ohtani to specialize (if he had to choose one), a super-philanthropic free agent, and more.
Audio intro: El Warren, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: El Warren, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Cowboys collapse article
Link to Coover book wiki
Link to “sports are rigged” account
Link to Shams/Woj moves
Link to EW Episode 2109
Link to Germán perfecto wiki
Link to more on Germán
Link to EW Episode 2108
Link to Neil Paine research
Link to Ben on innings eating
Link to Kershaw perfecto game
Link to Boras World Series proposal
Link to Jeff on baseball LeBron
Link to 1892 pitching proposal
Link to Ohtani donation
Link to 2020 donations article 1
Link to 2020 donations article 2
Link to 2020 donations article 3
Link to 2020 donations article 4
Link to 2020 donations article 5
Link to listener emails database
Link to Mario Superstar Baseball info
Link to Mario Superstar Baseball Discord
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| 0:00.0 | What's the greatest podcast of all if you love a game of baseball |
| 0:20.0 | It's effectively wild |
| 0:22.0 | while It's effectively wild. |
| 0:24.0 | effectively wild. |
| 0:27.0 | When Nand back, |
| 0:30.0 | in back rally. Hello and welcome to episode 2113 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:41.2 | fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the |
| 0:45.6 | ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of fangrass. Hello Meg. It's been a backloaded week for us here at |
| 0:51.6 | Effectively Wilds. You never know what we're going to talk about. You never |
| 0:54.7 | know when we're going to talk about it. But we will get to our typical three episodes this |
| 1:00.2 | week. Come Hell or High Water, we will be recording a weekend episode this week come hell or high water we will be recording a weekend |
| 1:03.7 | episodes this week we'll be catching up on some news and banter but we wanted to do |
| 1:09.4 | some emails today that's always fun and we have company. One of those Patreon |
| 1:16.2 | supporters that we say the show is presented by is joining us and presenting the show in |
| 1:22.2 | person today. |
| 1:24.0 | Nick Tabor, Mike Trout, Tear, Patreon supporter. |
| 1:26.7 | Welcome to Effectively Wild. |
| 1:28.6 | Hey guys, thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:29.9 | I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:31.1 | Well, thanks so much for being here, and thanks so much for helping us be here, |
| 1:35.3 | making it possible for us to be here. |
| 1:37.8 | I always start off by asking our Patreon guests |
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