Thursday, October 24

Effectively Wild Episode 2051: Bunts and Balks and Handed Balls, Oh My

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about how late it’s within the season and a fan’s exuberant response to the one identified unassisted outfield triple play in main or minor league historical past, reply listener emails (15:17) about Shohei Ohtani 2.0 and whether or not “bulk guys” may stave off extinction for 300-game winners, Stat Blast (38:11) about standings-related enjoyable information, precedents for the Mariners quickly erasing a 10-game deficit within the AL West, group droughts in back-to-back-to-belly homers, non-All-Star MVPs, bunting by depend, this season’s uptick in balks, Gunnar Henderson and the passing-up-the-cycle membership, and a wild pitch/handed ball thriller, plus a Future Blast from 2051 (1:49:48) and some follow-ups (1:52:30).

Audio intro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to MLBTR on Brentz
Link to Craig on the triple play
Link to Pages From Baseball’s Past
Link to ITYSL
Link to Ringer ITYSL rating
Link to listener emails database
Link to Sam on Ruth/Ohtani
Link to story on Ohtani MRI
Link to Ben on Yarbrough
Link to “bulk guy” origin story
Link to story on Verlander and 300
Link to Evan’s group streaks knowledge
Link to last-place NYY/NYM
Link to string on Yanks 10-loss streak
Link to Ben on aggressive stability
Link to EW Episode 1354
Link to ALW division odds graph
Link to 1982 Braves doc
Link to group HR streaks knowledge
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to Marlins 3-HR recreation
Link to group 4-HR streaks
Link to Ben on Padres stars
Link to non-All-Star MVPs
Link to bunt knowledge
Link to Belt bunt try
Link to McGuire bunt
Link to Grisham bunt try
Link to Rojas bunt
Link to group balk leaders
Link to league balk totals
Link to WP/PB/balks knowledge
Link to Rob Mains on ’88 balks
Link to ’88 article on balks
Link to 2023 article on balks
Link to skipped cycles knowledge
Link to Henderson publish
Link to Henderson video
Link to Henderson recreation story
Link to story on Fuld
Link to record of Gunnar video games
Link to 2001 Frye story
Link to Frye tweet
Link to Foxx’s cycle recreation
Link to 1933 cycle quotation
Link to Ben on sticky stuff
Link to WP/PB totals
Link to Cooper on one-knee catching
Link to Cooper on one-knee catching 2
Link to Cooper on one-knee catching 3
Link to WaPo on the 2022 ball
Link to Rick Wilber’s web site
Link to Future Blast wiki
Link to Strasburg wage report
Link to Passan violations tweet

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