Effectively Wild Episode 2149: Protective Eyewash
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about White Sox manager Pedro Grifol’s anti-eclipse eyewash, the shrinking moon, an eyebrow-raising quote by Blake Snell, the latest signature Elly De La Cruz game, the hot starts of Mike Trout, Anthony Volpe, and Tyler O’Neill, how this season’s converted relievers (including Garrett Crochet and Jordan Hicks) are faring, and more, then (38:57) discuss and debate the latest rash of pitcher injuries, the pitch clock as a culprit or a scapegoat, and possible solutions to the injury problem, plus (1:27:32) an 1892 complaint about position-player pitchers and a few follow-ups.
Audio intro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Grifol quote
Link to Sox Machine on Grifol
Link to Ben on the 2017 eclipse
Link to tweet about eclipse coincidence
Link to story on shrinking moon
Link to story on end of eclipses
Link to more on moon shrinking
Link to Nick Gordon comment
Link to Adler on eyewash
Link to Snell quote
Link to zone rate stats
Link to Elly homers
Link to Elly fun fact 1
Link to Elly fun fact 2
Link to article on Volpe swing
Link to Sox pitch usage story
Link to Sox Run Prevention Unit
Link to FG post on Sox pitching
Link to FG post on Rafaela
Link to FG post on Hicks
Link to Ben on pitcher injuries
Link to MLBTR top stories screenshot
Link to MLBPA statement
Link to MLB statement
Link to Cole comments
Link to Verlander comments
Link to Taillon/Wood comments
Link to Scherzer comments
Link to Passan on pitcher injuries
Link to Sawchik tweet
Link to Dan S. on the clock
Link to BP on the clock
Link to story on Bieber’s offseason
Link to cricket bowling rules
Link to cricket and TJS
Link to EW on speed limits
Link to mound height study
Link to Ben on pitcher roster limits
Link to Rich Hill surgeries
Link to 1892 article
Link to Bookforum Oyler review
Link to Imanaga presser
Link to The Athletic on Imanaga
Link to Imanaga song
Link to Kelenic comment
Link to Ontario cursive story
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form
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| 0:00.0 | I mean here's a guy right perfect example Joe Boyle 44 balls 42 strikes he's not |
| 0:06.4 | throwing a ton of strikes he throws hard and he's going to be in the majors |
| 0:10.6 | for a while you'd imagine because he's got swing and missed up. |
| 0:15.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:16.4 | That's it. |
| 0:18.0 | Also a great podcast that I'm sure we'll use that clip. |
| 0:21.6 | Six-0ing. Oakland with a lead. Special gifts is free series pitching in pure poetry. |
| 0:36.0 | That's why I love when he's all. |
| 0:40.0 | Effectively wild, wild, |
| 0:45.0 | wild, effectively wild, effectively wild, |
| 0:49.0 | effectively wild, |
| 0:51.0 | Baseball broadcast. effectively wild a baseball podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2 149 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our |
| 1:03.7 | Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Macrelli of |
| 1:07.6 | fan graphs hello meck. |
| 1:09.6 | Hello. Sometimes we use the term I-Wash on this podcast and not always do people know what we mean when we say that because it is a term that is often used in baseball context and not as often outside baseball context. |
| 1:24.2 | So if we have to give an example of IWash next time we use the term just in case anyone is in the |
| 1:31.1 | dark so to speak that was not even intended word play here but |
| 1:34.8 | the example I think I would give is white socks manager Pedro Grafahl and his |
| 1:40.0 | comments about the eclipse on Monday did you see what he said about the eclipse on Monday. |
| 1:43.0 | Did you see what he said about the eclipse? |
| 1:45.0 | I did not. I missed that. |
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