Effectively Wild Episode 2216: (Fish) Food for Thought
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and FanGraphs’ Michael Baumann play a game of “College Baseball Player or Vuelta a España Stage Winner?”, discuss Kumar Rocker’s potential and path to the majors, and (17:38) meet major leaguers Tyler Jay and Richard Fitts, before talking (39:33) to *checks notes* Marlins reliever Big Mike Baumann about becoming the second major leaguer ever to play for five teams in one season. After that (1:05:10), Ben chats with Baumann’s teammate Declan Cronin about how he’s held hitters homerless all season, the high-BABIP blues, the latest trends in pitching development, player paperwork, and more. Then (1:39:52) Ben brings on writer Lakshmi Gandhi to discuss Rocker’s significance as the first MLB player of Indian descent, before finishing (1:55:39) with several follow-ups.
Audio intro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 2: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 3: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Austin Klewan, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Vuelta a España wiki
Link to Wheelysports
Link to Baumann on Rocker
Link to MLBTR on Rocker
Link to MLB on Rocker
Link to BP on Rocker
Link to Rocker/Leiter Vandy doc
Link to Rocker MiLB highlights
Link to MLB Pipeline Top 100
Link to B-Ref new debuts
Link to post-ASB team pitching WAR
Link to Fitts story 1
Link to Fitts story 2
Link to Fitts story 3
Link to Fitts interview
Link to Red Sox top prospects
Link to 2024 White Sox splits
Link to Baumann’s White Sox post
Link to The Athletic on Baumann
Link to Drake on EW
Link to MLBTR on Gose
Link to Suits: L.A. wiki
Link to first Cronin pod appearance
Link to FG RP WAR
Link to ERA-FIP leaders
Link to pitcher defensive support
Link to highest BABIP allowed
Link to post on homerless Cronin
Link to Tread Athletics
Link to MLBTR on Marlins moves
Link to Buck’s Big Mac call
Link to Laschmi’s 2021 article
Link to NPR’s 2021 article
Link to Texas South Asians site
Link to MLB on Rocker’s background
Link to Dallas News on Rocker
Link to Lakshmi’s website
Link to Rocker debut Ks
Link to Doris Day article 1
Link to Doris Day article 2
Link to 50-homer SB leaders
Link to The Athletic on Sacramento
Link to Chronicle on Sacramento
Link to BA MiLB park factors
Link to velo/K leaderboards
Link to EW Episode 2213
Link to updated Stat Blast spreadsheet
Link to EW listener emails database
Link to EW Episode 2215
Link to September 2021 screenshot
Link to zoomed-in screenshot
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form
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| 0:00.0 | You're talking about the staplas, the before the so sweats, |
| 0:05.0 | the sauvigence, and super a fates, |
| 0:10.0 | I'm not school, it's effectively cool, I'm not as |
| 0:15.0 | it's effectively cool, I'm sure say effectively wild. |
| 0:19.0 | Effective more sovage. |
| 0:30.0 | effectivore solvage. Hello and welcome to episode 2 216 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:37.6 | Baseball Podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:41.9 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer. Not joined by Meg Rally this time. |
| 0:47.0 | Getting by with a little help from my friends with Meg on vacation and one of my friends, |
| 0:51.9 | formerly of the Ringer, but now fan graphs own Michael |
| 0:55.6 | Michael I thought about trying to do a mega impression but one I can't get that |
| 1:01.4 | mellow and two I think it's a bad idea to mock your boss on |
| 1:07.6 | Recording so yeah, I can't imagine that being that convincing. I mean not that you're bad at impressions or can't do voices but I don't |
| 1:14.9 | know that the register would really work for you but I don't want to doubt you but I guess now you're just |
| 1:21.1 | disappointing people because we've brought it up and you you aren't debuting the |
| 1:24.7 | impression. I've been losing the upper register. I did I recently attended the the |
| 1:29.9 | wedding of our friend and former colleague Shocker Summon in earlier the summer and did karaoke at the after party and |
| 1:38.9 | Oh man the tenor one is not there anymore. Oh no, well you gotta keep the upper register for future performances of what did Jerry DePoto do. |
| 1:47.6 | That's true. |
| 1:48.6 | He's always doing something and you'll be called upon to perform. So, got a packed show today, lots of different |
| 1:56.1 | segments, lots of different guests, but I thought we could start, well we should probably start with, |
| 2:02.4 | I imagine you have some sort of game to torment me with? |
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