Effectively Wild Episode 2166: Delayed Gratifi-K-tion

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Rays running out of mound visits and various visit-related hypotheticals, then (21:00) answer listener emails about “due up” vs. “on deck,” strikes vs. pitches in the strike zone, whether focusing on wins instead of runs makes WAR less intuitive, Quinn Priester and FIP-based pitcher WAR, Ronald Acuña Jr.’s ping-ponging strikeout rate, whether the ball-strike challenge system hampers strikeout celebrations, how much infielders help control the running game, advanced pitching machines and the minors-to-majors transition, why there aren’t more major league trick plays, cathartic uniform-burning, and timeout-induced injuries.

Audio intro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Rays mound visit story
Link to mound visits rule
Link to story on get-back coaches
Link to OnDeck Capital wiki
Link to Birnbaum on runs vs. wins
Link to lowest K-BB%
Link to highest HR/9
Link to defense behind pitcher
Link to FG RA/9 WAR
Link to Jaffe on Acuña
Link to Dan S. on zStats
Link to Petriello on Acuña’s Ks
Link to ESPN on Báez tags
Link to BP on tags
Link to Ben on pitching machines
Link to Rosenthal on MiLB-MLB gap
Link to Ben on MLB-MiLB in 2015
Link to Skunk in the Outfield
Link to Grand Illusion play
Link to KK play
Link to Skenes gamer
Link to Fletcher story
Link to EW on equipment destruction
Link to uni-burning story
Link to listener emails database
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form

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0:00.0	effectively wild.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2166.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2166 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball
0:17.0	podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rowley of
0:19.8	fan graphs and I am joined by Ben Lemberger of the Ringer. Ben, how are you?
0:23.0	I'm all right.
0:24.0	You know, I think one mountain visit is too many.
0:28.0	You're aware of that, right?
0:29.0	I think they should all be banned.
0:30.0	You should just have to do your conferring between innings, not during.
0:35.2	This is not a little league.
0:36.6	This is the big leagues.
0:37.8	This is Bush League to have to call a coach out there or to go out there and remind a picture of something. You just had a chance to talk to him. Anyway, I know that that may be a minority position. No mound visits allowed, but you're definitely no longer allowed five mound visits.
0:54.4	Even Major League Baseball agrees that's too many.
0:57.0	Yeah, well, it depends.
0:59.3	Yeah, okay.
1:00.5	So there is sort of a wrinkle to that.
1:03.0	And we talked about this recently because we were reviewing recent rules changes
1:08.0	that we might want to be rolled back.
1:11.0	And one we considered was the reduction in the number of mound visits you're
1:15.4	allowed we did not want to roll that back but we were kind of making fun of
1:19.3	the reduction because yes they reduce the limit from five to four this year after
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