Effectively Wild Episode 2021: All the time Be Closing

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani’s newest exploits and career-best WAR tempo, the Angels’ playoff hopes, Corbin Carroll’s physique, and Mickey Moniak’s fluky-but-fun scorching streak, then (20:55) reply listener emails about how large a scandal it will be if Ohtani turned out to be two twins, when managers would select to take in-game mulligans, and which stat ought to substitute errors within the conventional line rating, adopted by a Meet a Major Leaguer section (54:00) that includes Keaton Winn and Ricky Karcher (in addition to Joe Jacques and Stan Musial), Stat Blasts (1:18:45) about Zack Greinke and the widest pitch-speed spreads and Jo Adell and the gamers with the largest profession gaps between their Triple-A and MLB manufacturing, plus a Past Blast (1:39:30) from 2021.

Audio intro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Ohtani’s oppo homers
Link to Ohtani oppo graphic
Link to Ohtani’s Statcast document
Link to story on Ohtani’s sequence
Link to Ohtani’s HR lead
Link to Blum’s bat tweet
Link to Ohtani’s streak
Link to Neil Paine on Ohtani
Link to Ohtani sweepers by begin
Link to Ohtani sweepers vs. LHB
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to Angels wRC+ leaders
Link to The Athletic on Moniak
Link to minor league chase leaders
Link to MLB swing-rate leaders
Link to article on Carroll
Link to Dan Bern’s Ohtani music
Link to Canseco conspiracy
Link to Atlantic League EW episode
Link to Craig/Báez play
Link to Minor’s 2 hundredth strikeout story
Link to different Ben on line scores
Link to trendy field rating story
Link to EW emails database
Link to record of saves in debuts
Link to MLB.com on Winn’s debut
Link to McCovey Chronicles on Winn
Link to story on Giants bullpen WAR
Link to toothpaste/Sriracha tweet
Link to Karcher interview
Link to Karcher pitch plot
Link to Karcher article 1
Link to Karcher article 2
Link to Karcher article 3
Link to Karcher article 4
Link to Jacques call-up article 1
Link to Jacques call-up article 2
Link to Jacques debut play
Link to Jacques interview
Link to Jacques different interview
Link to Musial/Jacques question
Link to Musial story
Link to 2023 new debuts
Link to Topps Now playing cards
Link to pitch-speed-spread leaders
Link to new Greinke tales article
Link to EW episode on Greinke tales
Link to active-pitcher spreads
Link to Simon pitch spreads
Link to Padilla pitch spreads
Link to consecutive-pitches Stat Blast
Link to Lucas Apostoleris on Twitter
Link to Triple-A/MLB gaps spreadsheet
Link to Triple-A/MLB hypothetical e mail
Link to intra-season AAA/MLB hole Blast
Link to Ben on the majors/minors hole
Link to Kenny Jackelen on Twitter
Link to Home Run Challenge press launch
Link to Home Run Challenge leaderboard
Link to donate to Home Run Challenge
Link to 2021 Past Blast supply
Link to Ben on transferring the mound
Link to Ben/Rob on the outcomes
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack

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