Effectively Wild Episode 2191: (Don’t) Shake it Off
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Home Run Derby, the Futures Game and skills competition, Globe Life Field, All-Star uniforms, and more reflections from All-Star Week, then (34:18) discuss a challenge-system-driven change to broadcast K-zone displays, Chris Sale’s aversion to pitch-calling, quantifying game-calling, David Fletcher’s latest knuckleballing, using a position-player pitcher against a hitter who’s going for homer history, the shorthanded Dodgers rotation, a prediction about Aaron Judge, and a strikeout-rate plateau.
Audio intro: El Warren, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Manfred on the unis
Link to K-zone story
Link to K-zone tweet
Link to Manfred ABS comments
Link to Sale interview
Link to EW on game-calling
Link to Fletcher game log
Link to Fletcher investigation
Link to BP on Stubbs
Link to Dodgers depth chart
Link to MLBTR on May
Link to Ryan call-up
Link to Wells prediction
Link to Wells tweet
Link to Wells tweet 2
Link to non-pitcher K rates
Link to Picard clip
Link to preseason predictions update
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form
Sponsor Us on Patreon
Facebook Group
Twitter Account
EW Subreddit
Effectively Wild Wiki
iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)
Get Our Merch!
Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | What's the greatest podcast of all if you love the game of baseball? |
| 0:07.0 | It's effectively wild |
| 0:12.0 | while it's effect It's effectively wild |
| 0:15.0 | effectively wild |
| 0:17.0 | When Nand back, |
| 0:20.0 | and back rally. Hello and welcome to episode 2191 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our |
| 0:35.6 | Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of |
| 0:40.4 | fangraphs deep in the heart of Texas. |
| 0:43.4 | Actually, I guess that's not true. |
| 0:44.9 | You're maybe in North Texas, |
| 0:46.6 | probably would be more accurate. |
| 0:48.3 | Deep in the heart of North Texas. |
| 0:50.5 | Meck rally, fangrasss, hello, Meg. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello. |
| 0:54.3 | So you are at the all-star break, |
| 0:57.2 | though it doesn't sound like you're really getting much of a break. |
| 1:00.4 | You are drinking in the all-star festivities. You are |
| 1:04.0 | marinating in All Star Week in Texas, |
| 1:08.0 | and we're going to be talking about that today |
| 1:11.0 | and also next time. So we're recording on Tuesday afternoon before the |
| 1:18.7 | all-star game. So next time we will talk about the all-star game and also the draft, which is still ongoing in the |
| 1:26.8 | latter rounds as we speak. So we will have Eric Longen-Hagen on for his traditional |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

