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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2183: .500 Days of Summer

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Nolan Schanuel’s aversion to day games, the Astros reaching .500 and coming for the Mariners, Houston’s weekend opponent (the Mets) making it back to .500 and nearing a playoff spot, the success (and good fortune) of Reynaldo López, the bad fortune of Adam Duvall, and how “expected” stats have changed perceptions of performance, Hunter Greene and vomiting on the mound, a Dodgers bat…man’s clutch catch, Shohei Ohtani’s RBI streak, Ohtani’s dog’s backpack, and pedantic questions (1:20:55) about leaving the bases loaded, when a game is “all” one team, and how umpires signal a full count.

Audio intro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Washington quote
Link to Schanuel splits
Link to Sam on Schanuel power
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to ESPN SoS
Link to BaseRuns standings
Link to Winker video
Link to BP on Brown’s sinker
Link to Mets Grimace story
Link to McDonald’s wiki
Link to Grimace wiki
Link to pitcher wOBA-xWOBA
Link to hitter wOBA-xWOBA
Link to lowest ERAs
Link to xERA-ERA sheet
Link to xHR-HR
Link to Duvall on cans of poop
Link to CBS on Greene
Link to Reynolds video
Link to BP on Reynolds
Link to Greene water tweets
Link to Ben on sick starters
Link to Herrera’s play
Link to Dodgers batmen story
Link to Ohtani RBI story
Link to SABR on longest streaks
Link to longest streaks wiki
Link to Ohtani and dog pic
Link to pet Randoseru
Link to Randoseru video
Link to Randoseru article
Link to Randoseru Reddit thread
Link to listener emails database
Link to Montgomery PitchCom clip
Link to O’s fan interview
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form

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0:00.0

By the chance

0:02.0

shens Unfact get me wild.

0:05.0

Joey Maneses.

0:08.0

No.

0:09.0

Walk off three-run diggers.

0:10.0

Stop it.

0:11.0

Walk off three-run shot.

0:12.6

Oh my God.

0:14.2

Meg, he's the best player in baseball.

0:26.7

Hello and welcome to episode 2183 of Effectively Wild, a Baseball Podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Benlenburg

0:31.2

of the Ringer joined by Meg Rowley of fancraft's hello me

0:34.7

Hello. Can I read you a relatable tweet? Sure. Relatable to me at least and

0:40.6

really it's the quote that is relatable the tweet is about a quote

0:44.7

it's a quote from Ron Washington angel's manager about angel's player Nolan

0:49.2

chaunowel here it is early in the year chaunawell wasn't playing in day games because he had trouble waking up in the daytime.

0:57.2

And so I sat him down a couple times in day games and now he wakes up at the daytime. It's me. It's you. Yeah, that would be me as a baseball player.

1:08.1

Yeah. Day games. Oh, no. This is my vampuric lifestyle and lack of circadian rhythm would stand me in good stead as a baseball player.

1:20.0

It's a profession that generally is pretty receptive to people who stay up late and don't get up early, right?

1:27.3

And if you're not like that coming in, you kind of have to become like that in order to live the baseball player lifestyle.

1:34.1

Oh yeah. But then it would be even more difficult to have to play day games on occasion.

1:39.5

And for me, we record this podcast almost always in the afternoon, mercifully.

1:45.0

But if we had to get up early and record this podcast,

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