Effectively Wild Episode 2177: Remembering Rickwood
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about this season’s giant cluster of wild card contenders, the potential for an inactive trade deadline, the role the White Sox will play, whether the compression of the standings is good or bad for baseball, and expanded-playoffs incentives. Then (33:46) they talk to NPR producer Alana Schreiber, creator and executive producer of the NPR/MLB podcast Road to Rickwood, about the history of the park that’s hosting its first MLB game this month, plus a postscript (1:17:48) about a postseason mid-PA pitching change.
Audio intro: Cory Brent, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”
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Link to MLB’s Rickwood page
Link to Bull Durham anecdote
Link to Shelton on EW
Link to EW Episode 1887
Link to 1991 ALCS game
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Link to 1991 article page 1
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Link to Ben on mid-PA changes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Every weekday your favorite pastime. |
| 0:15.0 | Sit down, relaxing unwind, because we learn how a tonne you were. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello. Tony Wur. Hello and welcome to episode 2177 of Effectively Wild, a baseball |
| 0:29.4 | podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by |
| 0:34.6 | Magrally of Van Raff's, hello, Meg. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello. |
| 0:38.2 | There is a trade this week, a minor trade, though involving a not so minor name major league player to be clear |
| 0:46.0 | cabin bggio was traded from the blue Jays to the Dodgers which kind of marks the end of an era |
| 0:52.0 | the era in which the Blue Jays had all the Big League sons. |
| 0:56.3 | They used to have even more than they did at the start of this season, and it looked like this would be their trio, their core back in 2019, 2020. |
| 1:05.1 | They'd have Bezio, they'd have Bichette, they'd have Guerrero, and Bijio didn't pan out so well. |
| 1:11.2 | It turned out that the initial plate discipline he showed that wasn't really |
| 1:15.4 | sustained and then he also just didn't really hit the ball that hard. The point of this is not |
| 1:20.6 | necessarily about the Caban Bijio trade trade but about the fact that I think that might be the last |
| 1:26.0 | trade we see this season I just don't see like ever yeah I think I think that's a wrap on |
| 1:31.7 | trade deadline season here on June 12th 13th whatever day it is because |
| 1:38.4 | Thank you because I don't see that the conditions exist for inactive trade deadline. |
| 1:45.0 | I'm being hyperbolic about no more trades will be made, but I am more confident |
| 1:50.3 | than I ever have been before that this might be a quiet deadline because this is |
| 1:54.7 | something we talk about before every deadline oh do we think this will be |
| 1:58.7 | active do we think it will be quiet and we never know I never know sometimes I'm surprised that it's slow sometimes I'm |
| 2:04.6 | surprised that it's fast but I would be surprised if there were a lot of |
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