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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2201: The Jackson Three

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the White Sox and the etiquette and timing of firing the manager of one of the worst teams of all time, Logan O’Hoppe and performance anxiety, Brusdar Graterol and the most demoralizing kind of injury, the return of Anthony Gose, next season’s scheduled game at Bristol Motor Speedway, other unorthodox potential locations for MLB games, and why baseball fields are deepest in center, Aroldis Chapman’s freakish velocity and durability, Craig Kimbrel, Grayson Rodriguez, and the outlook for the Orioles’ rotation, the recent performances of Jackson Holliday, Jackson Chourio, and Jackson Merrill, what Bobby Witt Jr.’s progression says about the aging curve, and more.

Audio intro: Austin Klewan, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Fegan on the Grifol firing
Link to MLBTR on the firing
Link to Grifol record tweet
Link to McCloskey wiki
Link to O’Hoppe tweet
Link to O’Hoppe article
Link to Abreu article
Link to Graterol injury story
Link to Senga injury story
Link to MLBTR on Marquez
Link to Fowler injury article
Link to Yount wiki
Link to BP IL Ledger
Link to article on Gose’s return
Link to Motor Speedway game
Link to aircraft carrier HR derby
Link to Carrier Classic wiki
Link to outdoor NHL games
Link to Reddit thread on deeper CF
Link to sidespin/spray graph
Link to Polo Grounds wiki
Link to track cycling wiki
Link to velodrome wiki
Link to Chapman velo article
Link to pitcher aging curves
Link to Sheehan on Kimbrel
Link to MLBTR on Rodriguez
Link to Holliday leaderboard
Link to Sawchik on Holliday
Link to EW preseason predictions
Link to leaderboard since 6/1
Link to Holliday HR streak
Link to B-Ref Jacksons tweet
Link to Jacksons HR highlights
Link to best age-20 seasons
Link to best rookie age-20 seasons
Link to FG combined WAR leaderboard
Link to aging curve article
Link to aging curve article 2
Link to Ohio Cup wiki
Link to Be the Match website
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form

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fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

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ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of fan graphss. Hello Meg. Hello.

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So what do you think is the etiquette of firing a manager and multiple members of your coaching

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staff amid a historically long losing streak?

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What's the right time to pull the trick? a historically long losing streak.

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What's the right time to pull the trigger?

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Because the white socks decided to do it

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after snapping the streak, but not immediately after.

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Not the day that they finally won one but the day after that after they had lost one after the wind

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so they must have been weighing when and whether to do this for a long time one would think and it probably wasn't the 21st consecutive loss that pushed them over the edge.

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Probably they were leaning toward doing this before then. So do you think they were thinking, well, we got to wait until the streak is snapped? We don't want to saddle the replacement manager with this ongoing streak but then maybe you don't want to fire everyone the day after they finally snap the streak.

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