Effectively Wild Episode 1997: This Time it Pitch Counts

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter in regards to the podcast’s semi-official new nickname for Yandy Díaz, what Mookie Betts enjoying shortstop says in regards to the Dodgers, and Andrew McCutchen’s scorching begin, then (15:29) reply emails in regards to the Reds’ many mascots, why we cease at “Quadruple-A,” how good in the present day’s twenty sixth males could be in the event that they traveled again in time, sticky stuff on a cheesy ball, and whether or not MLB would ever privatize publicly accessible Statcast information, adopted (47:48) by a Stat Blast about Ross Stripling and the final word swingmen, the longest similar sequences of staff wins and losses, and whether or not working the rely to get pitchers out of video games continues to be all it’s cracked as much as be, plus a recap (1:23:03) of the primary time the A’s performed MLB video games in Las Vegas and a Past Blast (1:30:27) from 1997.

Audio intro: Benny and the Jeffs, “Effectively Wild”
Audio outro: Jacket Thor, “My Patron Saint”

Link to FG put up on Mookie
Link to Mookie’s play at brief
Link to Eric Stephen on Mookie
Link to Smyly/Gomes play
Link to MLB mascots wiki
Link to Reds mascots web page
Link to Ben on Triple-A power
Link to Clay D. on league power
Link to Ben on caliber of play
Link to MLBTR on pre-tacked balls
Link to Topps NOW playing cards
Link to Seinfeld clip
Link to Stripling on EW
Link to MLBTR on Stripling
Link to Slusser tweet about Stripling
Link to swingmen GS/GR ratio
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to travelling salesman drawback
Link to Graham’s tweet
Link to Turner’s quotes
Link to Tango on 3-2 counts
Link to WP when SP doesn’t go 5
Link to 2018 opener article
Link to 1996 articles on A’s in Vegas
Link to Cashman Field wiki
Link to 1997 Past Blast supply
Link to NYT on radical realignment
Link to Tribune on radical realignment
Link to Grant on radical realignment
Link to B-Ref on radical realignment
Link to Hendriks announcement