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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2214: Don’t Bean Me, Bro

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the impressiveness of a prediction by Carlos Estévez, how to say the score from the losing team’s perspective, and getting hit in the head by a hot dog. Then (23:13) they discuss getting hit in the head (or the hands) by a baseball: how often it happens, how dangerous it is, and whether (as Whit Merrifield argues) MLB must act to discourage it. Then (58:28) they brainstorm about visiting teams’ first-inning disadvantage and answer listener emails (1:08:42) about Triple-A teams as playoff warm-up acts, an obscure Rich Hill record, post-PitchCom performance in past sign-stealing situations, headfirst sliding vs. feet-first sliding (and whether running more can cause one to slump at the plate), the concept of a “natural position,” and the ethics of a UCL exclusivity deal.

Audio intro: Moon Hound, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Estévez story
Link to Estévez game
Link to Estévez game highlights
Link to McMahon homer
Link to Estévez game story
Link to 2022 Merrifield HBP
Link to Merrifield Athletic article 1
Link to Merrifield Athletic article 2
Link to Ben on HBP in 2021
Link to Mains on HBP in 2021
Link to Arthur on HBP and batters 1
Link to Arthur on HBP and batters 2
Link to FG on HBP in 2022
Link to HBP per PA by year
Link to HBP per pitch by year
Link to avg. HBP velo
Link to avg. FB HBP velo
Link to HBP FB% by year
Link to avg. HBP height
Link to avg. FB HBP height
Link to HBP in danger zones by year
Link to Shadow Zone HBP by year
Link to HBP in the strike zone by year
Link to BP Recovery Dashboard
Link to Rosenthal on command
Link to Sarris on command
Link to BP on hitter injuries
Link to Mains on HFA by inning
Link to Smith on first-inning HFA 1
Link to Smith on first-inning HFA 2
Link to Japanese baseball rules
Link to 2015 Japan Times column
Link to Ben C. on playoffs layoffs
Link to Hill Stathead query
Link to MLBTR on Hill’s DFA
Link to Hill’s 2024 game log
Link to B-Ref bases-occupied splits
Link to runner-on-second offense
Link to no-runner-on-second offense
Link to sliding mitts blog
Link to Mark Simon’s Twitter
Link to SIS Twitter
Link to injury rates on slides
Link to Andrews on Cruz
Link to Benz on Cruz
Link to info on lefty defenders
Link to Buck on butts
Link to mindset explainer
Link to listener emails database
Link to gunk story 1
Link to gunk story 2
Link to gunk story 3
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form

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0:00.0

Should we use defensive run safe or follow the OAA way?

0:08.0

Who's going to weigh in?

0:12.0

With equipped... gone away in with their quips and opinions.

0:17.0

It's effectively wild.

0:20.0

Effectively wild.

0:21.0

Effectively while. Effect 14 of effectively wild a fan grafts baseball podcast brought to you by our

0:33.8

Patreon supporters I'm my grolly a fan grafts and I'm joined by Ben

0:37.1

Limburg of the ringer Ben how are you okay we received another submission in our Is This Player Prediction impressive genre?

0:46.0

And this one, it made me think.

0:49.0

It made me at least consider whether I was impressed by this.

0:52.0

So this was sent to us by listener John and it comes from Alex

0:56.6

Coffey of the Philadelphia Inquirer who just wrote an article the other day about Carlos Estevis and the article starts with this anecdote from a few years ago which mentions a

1:07.4

prediction Estevas meant then so here's the lead almost exactly three years ago on September 12th 2021

1:14.8

Carl Sestevas was warming up in the Visitors Bowlpen with the Rockies at

1:18.6

Citizens Bank Park when he saw a silver projectile whizzing toward his head.

1:23.6

After it hit him, he realized what it was.

1:26.2

It was a hot dog, Estevas said.

1:28.4

I got smoked.

1:29.7

I was like, was that a weeny?

1:31.6

This place is insane

1:33.0

he did not actually predict that he would be hit by a hot dog

1:39.1

though that would be pretty impressive too

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