Effectively Wild Episode 2194: The Breakout Fakeout
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the likenesses, word counts, and stat citations on Hall of Fame plaques, what would happen if all past stats disappeared, the impending returns of Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw (and the recent return of J.T. Realmuto), the end of James Paxton’s time with the Dodgers, Jo Adell’s breakout fakeout and Jarren Duran’s belated breakout, Francisco Vicioso and Shaq Thompson, the morphing meme of Nick Castellanos, and the Brewers, the Mariners, and the challenge and payoff of rostering pretty good players.
Audio intro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Mauer plaque
Link to Mauer hair commercial
Link to Beltré plaque
Link to Helton plaque
Link to McGriff plaque
Link to Leyland plaque
Link to Ruth plaque
Link to DiMaggio plaque
Link to Mantle plaque
Link to Fingers plaque
Link to FB post on plaques
Link to botched fresco
Link to article on Cobb’s hits
Link to WAR through age 27
Link to stats on hitter plaques
Link to stats on pitcher plaques
Link to BP on rewriting plaques
Link to Robinson statue article
Link to rebuilt Robinson statue
Link to The Onion stats article
Link to CME wiki
Link to MLB reboot episode
Link to MLBTR on Realmuto
Link to MLB.com on Realmuto’s return
Link to MLBTR on Trout
Link to MLB.com update on Trout
Link to Jaffe on Adell
Link to EW on Adell in May
Link to Sam on Duran
Link to Gomes on Dodgers pitching
Link to Reddit post on Vicioso
Link to Vicioso footage
Link to Shaq Thompson wiki
Link to Ben on Shaq in 2012
Link to Shusterman on Shaq
Link to Ben on Castellanos
Link to Apstein on playoff Castellanos
Link to Petriello on playoff Castellanos
Link to Levine on Castellanos
Link to McCarthy on Castellanos
Link to Levi on Castellanos
Link to Castellanos incidents tweet
Link to Castellanos incidents thread
Link to Jeff on avoiding the awful 1
Link to Jeff on avoiding the awful 2
Link to leading Brewers by PA
Link to Sheehan on the Brewers
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| 0:00.0 | Making Ben Wax about a play-off race. |
| 0:04.0 | A news bad's hard. |
| 0:10.0 | It's effectively wild. |
| 0:16.0 | So stick around you'll be well, |
| 0:19.0 | Be guile. |
| 0:21.0 | It's effectively wild |
| 0:25.0 | like Nolan Ryan was sometimes |
| 0:32.0 | Sometimes. Hello and welcome to episode 2194 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:37.0 | a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh of fangrafts and I am joined by Ben Lindberreg of the ringer. |
| 0:43.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:44.0 | Okay, can I send you a Hall of Fame plaque, please? |
| 0:48.0 | Me personally? |
| 0:50.0 | Yes, I mean not with your like- |
| 0:52.0 | this engraved on it it just someone else's |
| 0:55.0 | Hall of Fame plaque a real one in Cooper's down. |
| 0:58.0 | Down a little bit now but sure yeah go ahead. |
| 1:00.8 | Sorry maybe one day I'll make you a Hall of Fame plaque, just an honorary one, but this is a Hall of Fame plaque of an actual player with all identifying marks removed, so it's not the text part obviously that would |
| 1:15.4 | give away who it is and I did a screenshot yeah I did a screenshot of it and I cut it off below the emblem on the cap. |
| 1:26.7 | Okay. So you can't see what team's cap is being used here. |
| 1:30.8 | It's just the face and the top of the body. |
| 1:35.0 | Can you tell me, who is that hall of favor, Meg? Can you tell me who that Hall of |
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