Effectively Wild Episode 2273: Dodgers Dominance Discourse Redux
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley revisit and update their recent discussion on the Dodgers, competitive balance, and what’s good for the game in light of L.A.’s latest additions, then (1:06:18) discuss the Blue Jays’ signing of Anthony Santander and the outlook for Pete Alonso, followed by (1:20:02) a Stat Blast on Bob Uecker and the players with the highest percentage of homers hit against Hall of Famers.
Audio intro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Kite Person, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to EW Episode 2272
Link to Ben on the Dodgers
Link to Ben C. on L.A. relievers
Link to Sheehan parity post
Link to MLBTR on Scott
Link to MLBTR on Yates
Link to Dodgers deferrals article
Link to Ricketts quote
Link to Pirates fan fest story
Link to Cherington quote
Link to McCutchen misspelling
Link to Marlins spending article
Link to MLBTR on Santander
Link to Dan S. on Santander
Link to Santander Stathead
Link to Alonso update
Link to Alonso/Boras story
Link to Stat Blast question
Link to Uecker clip
Link to Stat Blast data
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| 0:00.0 | Effectively wild, effectively wild. |
| 0:05.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:08.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:12.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2273 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:26.6 | Baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:30.6 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:35.6 | Oh, hello. |
| 0:36.6 | Well, we are recording on Monday afternoon |
| 0:38.8 | a little bit before the Hall of Fame announcements, which is fine. I hate to break it to you, |
| 0:42.8 | but it's Tuesday, Ben. Oh, you're right. It is Tuesday. That whole holiday thing really screwed |
| 0:48.4 | me up. Well, it's Tuesday afternoon a little bit before. I'm on the ball today, clearly. |
| 0:55.6 | A little bit before the Hall of Fame announcements, that part at least I got, right? |
| 0:59.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.2 | Which is okay, because we're going to be devoting part of tomorrow's episode, the next episode, |
| 1:05.4 | to a Hall of Fame discussion where we will be having Jay J. Jaffe of VanGrafts and the Cooperstown Casebook, |
| 1:11.2 | Hall of Fame expert on the podcast in his annual appearance to discuss the Hall of Fame results. |
| 1:17.6 | Often we have him on early in Hall of Fame season, and once in a while we've had him on after |
| 1:23.7 | the announcements, and this is actually good, I guess, because we can get a breakdown of all of the trends |
| 1:29.2 | and who gained and who didn't gain |
| 1:31.5 | and what the takeaways are and the next ballot |
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