Effectively Wild Episode 2314: Memento Mori
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a new contender for the highest bat flip, meet major leaguers (14:28) Ryan Johnson and Alan Roden, and (48:35) answer listener emails about how different baseball would be if losses were free for fans and wins cost extra, whether the Rockies will finish in first before the Dodgers finish in last, whether umpires would stand somewhere else in a full-ABS situation, the record for career games pitched without a decision, catcher’s gear designed for a one-knee-down stance, why more Japanese catchers haven’t joined MLB, and more.
Audio intro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to WhatIfSports (coupon code “EFFECTIVELYWILD”)
Link to Ella Black series
Link to Ella Black event details
Link to Lugo bat flip
Link to Caminero bat flip
Link to Caminero article
Link to tallest buildings wiki
Link to Meet a Major Leaguer
Link to Angels prospect list
Link to Blum on Johnson 1
Link to Blum on Johnson 2
Link to Johnson pitch face
Link to Ben on DBU
Link to Blue Jays prospect list
Link to MLB.com on Roden
Link to Sportsnet on Roden
Link to Laurila on Roden 1
Link to Laurila on Roden 2
Link to BA on Roden
Link to Brian May wiki
Link to The Bachelor Australia wiki
Link to Ben on international Bachelor
Link to Quasar wiki
Link to Sagittarius A* wiki
Link to B-Ref new debuts
Link to Dan S. on Rockies vs. Sox
Link to relocated ump image
Link to career G w/o decision
Link to single-season G w/o decision
Link to consecutive G w/o decision
Link to G w/o decision to start career
Link to Díaz legs quote
Link to tall-catchers episode
Link to Opening Day catcher video
Link to catcher gear 1
Link to catcher gear 2
Link to catcher gear 3
Link to Opening Day catcher video
Link to short catchers
Link to Allen on NPB catchers
Link to 2009 Johjima story
Link to FG NPB data
Link to Mori’s player page
Link to listener emails database
Link to Andy’s angles sketch
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Ben, Lindberg and McRolley, come for the ball, and the banters free. |
| 0:08.1 | Baseball is a simulation. |
| 0:10.9 | It's all just one big conversation. |
| 0:17.6 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 2314 of Effectively Wild Hello and welcome to episode 2314 of Effectively Wild, a fangraphs baseball podcast brought |
| 0:26.6 | you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, Ben. |
| 0:31.8 | How are you? |
| 0:32.7 | Doing okay. |
| 0:33.7 | I have a very important question for you. |
| 0:36.1 | It is about bat flip hyped. |
| 0:39.2 | So we talked back in January, remember Junior Caminero? |
| 0:42.9 | Yes. |
| 0:43.3 | Just a bat flip for the ages. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah, who could forget. |
| 0:47.2 | Game 7 of the lead home championship, he hit a go-ahead homer in the ninth, 454-foot blast, and he threw his bat. |
| 0:58.8 | Not that far, but about as far as a human being can throw a bat, or so we thought. |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | And I think I may have even said at the time that that might have been an unbreakable bat-flip height record. |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.2 | And now I'm already questioning that just a few months after that January flip |
| 1:15.4 | because we have a new contender for biggest bat flip of all time. |
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