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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2184: The Biggest First-Half Surprises

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a player/league/umpire spat over on-screen strike-zone plots, whether “K-Zone” and its ilk have had a harmful effect on the game, where they stand on a hitter vs. pitcher dispute about the mid-game use of advanced pitching machines, the promotion of Nationals top prospect James Wood (and the future of Orioles top prospect Jackson Holliday), and Byron Buxton’s recent success. Then (59:08) they identify and discuss the teams, hitters, and pitchers that have most surpassed or fallen short of their preseason projections halfway through the regular season.

Audio intro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Drellich on zone plots
Link to Reddit thread on plots
Link to BP piece on plots
Link to ESPN on pitching machines
Link to Ben on pitching machines
Link to Ben on moving the mound
Link to Ben on roster limits
Link to MLBTR on Wood
Link to Nationals depth chart
Link to FG’s The Board
Link to MLB Pipeline top 100
Link to AAA wRC+ leaders
Link to Holliday’s game logs
Link to O’s prospect list
Link to Orioles depth chart
Link to Buxton’s sprint speeds
Link to sprint speed leaderboard
Link to team projections sheets
Link to hitter projections sheets
Link to pitcher projections sheets
Link to preseason team projections
Link to preseason hitter projections
Link to preseason pitcher projections
Link to MLBTR on Phils injuries
Link to Sam on Duran
Link to Laurila on Hauck
Link to Sox pitching piece 1
Link to Sox pitching piece 2
Link to Sox pitching piece 3
Link to Sox pitching piece 4
Link to team DRS leaderboard
Link to Paine on the Cubs
Link to McKenzie feature
Link to Peña interview clip
Link to Ben on in-game interviews
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form

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0:00.0

If baseball were different, how different would it be?

0:05.0

And if this thought haunted dreams, well stick around and see what Ben and Meg have to say philosophically and pedantically it's effectively wild.

0:18.0

Effectively wild.

0:23.0

Effectively Wild.

0:26.0

Hello and welcome to episode 2184 of Effectively Wild,

0:30.0

a fangrafts,

0:31.0

baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:33.4

I'm a rally fangrafts and I'm joined by Ben Lumburger the ringer.

0:37.4

Ben, how are you?

0:39.8

I'm okay.

0:40.8

How are you?

0:42.2

I don't know, man. Here we are though. We're doing, we're doing a

0:47.3

pod because we are, we're podcasters, you know? We are, we are the potters of pods where the dreamers of dreams

0:55.6

of dreams of of all the modern jobs you know the jobs that like our grandparents

1:00.9

don't understand totally.

1:02.7

Where does podcasting rank for you in terms of how stupid

1:06.3

that modern job?

1:07.7

Sometimes I'm like, what a weird thing

1:10.4

that this is part of my job?

1:11.7

I say that with love and affection for all of our

1:13.4

listeners because it's pretty cool that it gets to be my job but sometimes I'm like that's my job,

1:17.6

that's part of my job. What a weird thing? Yeah, it's up there in terms of

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