Effectively Wild Episode 2218: How the Tigers Got Gr-r-reat
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and FanGraphs’ Dan Szymborski banter about Ben’s timing in respect to Declan Cronin’s homerless streak, the perils of podcasts, predictions, and regression to the mean, the White Sox cutting payroll and their projections for the rest of this season, next season, and beyond, Gerrit Cole’s ignominious intentional walk, Alex Cora’s seeming admission that the Red Sox threw at Aaron Judge, Farhan Zaidi’s future in San Francisco, Heliot Ramos’s historic splash hit, Mike Trout’s possible position change, the Dodgers’ injury-plagued pitching staff, and the breakout of Bowden Francis. Then (1:21:27) Ben talks to Tigers TV voice Jason Benetti about how Detroit has made a late run despite selling at the trade deadline, the franchise’s outlook, and Jason’s job change, plus a postscript (1:58:10).
Audio intro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Cronin on EW
Link to Wood’s homer
Link to text from Cronin
Link to Leo’s Declan post
Link to White Sox payroll report
Link to Sox payroll page
Link to MLB payrolls
Link to Getz quotes
Link to playoff odds page
Link to BaseRuns records
Link to thread on Sox simulations
Link to Dan on outlier teams
Link to Tango on outlier teams
Link to Sox losses update
Link to 1916 A’s page
Link to Cole IBB story
Link to Dubuque on Cole
Link to Bello ball 1 to Judge 1
Link to Bello ball 2 to Judge
Link to Cora comments
Link to Post report on Cora
Link to later Cora report
Link to The Athletic on Chapman deal
Link to The Chronicle on Chapman deal
Link to Rosenthal on Zaidi
Link to Ben on ex-player GMs
Link to splash hits list
Link to MLB.com on Ramos HR
Link to Ramos Savant page
Link to Sam on splash hits 1
Link to Sam on splash hits 2
Link to Trout quotes
Link to 2018 Trout workout
Link to full-time-DH penalty
Link to Rosenthal on the Dodgers
Link to TJS data
Link to pitcher injury totals
Link to Rhoads on Twitter
Link to Dodgers depth chart
Link to Friedman’s comments
Link to Daugherty’s tweet
Link to Dan on innings eating
Link to Ben on innings eating
Link to BP on Francis
Link to Francis fun fact
Link to Francis FIP-WAR leaderboard
Link to Francis RA9-WAR leaderboard
Link to Late Heavy Bombardment wiki
Link to Dan on the zombie runner
Link to Rocky IV montage
Link to Rocky IV quote
Link to team records since 7/1
Link to team records since 7/30
Link to team records since 8/1
Link to RP WAR since 8/1
Link to SP innings since 8/1
Link to “Gnomes” wiki
Link to Space Mountain wiki
Link to plane boarding article
Link to Tigers trade activity
Link to Tigers pitcher usage article
Link to McGwire’s comments
Link to Jason’s podcast
Link to framing/cheating post
Link to Tony the Tiger wiki
Link to The Ringer-Verse
Link to Hang Up and Listen
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| 0:00.0 | A Baseball podcast, Podcast, Analytics and Stads, |
| 0:07.0 | with Ben and Meg from Fangrams, |
| 0:12.0 | effectively. and grass. Effectively wild. |
| 0:15.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:18.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:19.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:21.0 | Effectively wild. Hello and welcome to episode 2, 18 of Effectively Wild, Baseball Podcast from Van Grafs presented |
| 0:37.5 | by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:39.3 | I am Belinburg of The Ringer, not joined today by my rally who is still on vacation filling in for her |
| 0:46.0 | delightfully for me is Dan Simborsky senior writer for fan graphs creator of Zips |
| 0:52.2 | projection expert hello Dan. |
| 0:55.2 | Hey Ben delightful that doesn't sound like me there's a Dan Zeborsky in Michigan who's |
| 1:00.8 | a mechanic I believe you might be talking about him have you two |
| 1:04.3 | interacted no because you see I don't know what I would do in that situation |
| 1:08.5 | because it might be like a Highlander thing and there can only be one Dan Zborski and I have to do something horrible and that's not good for my non-incarceration. |
| 1:18.1 | So I steer clear that. |
| 1:20.7 | You could commiserate over people misspelling Simborski. I had |
| 1:24.2 | people misspelling Dan. I get called Dave a lot. Really? Yeah. How do you |
| 1:28.8 | spell Zimborski but not Dan? Even at E-S-PN I got called Dave a lot. |
| 1:32.4 | I even had a few articles that were by |
| 1:34.3 | Dave Zaborski. I'm like, guys, you got my last name. Don't know what my first name is? |
| 1:39.1 | I'm good at spelling Zaborski, if I do say so myself myself I'm good at spelling Mark Zepski |
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