Effectively Wild Episode 2160: Mail Call
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a recent uptick in base stealing and why Mike Trout’s loyalty to the Angels is criticized more than it’s celebrated. Then (16:39) they’re joined by Patreon supporter Alex Levy to discuss Alex’s background as a podcast listener, baseball fan, and mail carrier and answer emails (43:49) about a Mario approach to chemistry in baseball, back-to-back homers, providing players with a destructible piece of equipment, probabilistic robo umps, umps as neutral (but not infallible) arbiters, and the correct pronunciation of “summer sausage.”
Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
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Link to Rosenthal on Trout
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Link to February EW on Trout
Link to MLBTR on Buxton
Link to Mario baseball game 1
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Link to “back-to-back” definition
Link to Mackenzie tweets
Link to Zimmer’s website
Link to Zimmer’s WSJ column
Link to compound stress rule
Link to Youglish clips
Link to compound stress PDF 1
Link to compound stress PDF 2
Link to Simpsons clip
Link to listener emails database
Link to Thistl
Link to MLBTR on Arraez
Link to MLBTR on Ruiz
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| 0:00.0 | I want to banter with new ones |
| 0:08.0 | from two holes to other girls. |
| 0:11.0 | From two holes to other girls. to are the guile. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm just a man who wants. |
| 0:20.0 | Nothing lasts than effectively wild. |
| 0:24.0 | Oh, while, oh, while, oh, while, |
| 0:28.0 | a while, |
| 0:30.0 | a while, |
| 0:31.0 | nothing less than effectively wild. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2160 of Effectively wild, a Baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our |
| 0:45.1 | Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of |
| 0:49.7 | Fangraf's. Hello, Meg. That stolen base uptick that I lamented not happening. It's happening |
| 0:58.3 | Meg. I think it's happening. I think the steals have started to tick up. |
| 1:03.0 | As you will recall, one of my bold pre-season predictions |
| 1:07.0 | was that we would have something short of a surge, |
| 1:10.0 | but another moderate uptick in stealing this year. |
| 1:14.0 | My contention was that runners will realize that they can take more advantage of the new rules |
| 1:20.8 | and their success rates are higher than they have to be and so they should be |
| 1:25.8 | running more often but in the early going it didn't seem like they were and we talked |
| 1:31.5 | about that on episode 2151 and I more or less conceded even though that was |
| 1:37.0 | April 13th or so I accepted that it wasn't happening. There had been no uptick to that point. If anything there had been a |
| 1:45.4 | tiny little downturn and I just sort of resigned myself to the fact that no I guess runners have maxed out and maybe pitchers and catchers have countered the runners and this is where the rates will stay. |
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