Effectively Wild Episode 2019: Don’t Let Your Infants Develop As much as Be Sportswriters

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani main MLB in WAR and the variety of instances his hitting has leapfrogged his pitching or vice versa, the EW viewers’s verdict on who gained the pod’s latest 26-under-25 draft, the suddenly-quite-competitive A’s-Royals race for the worst document in baseball, a painful ending to a school playoff recreation and the evolving dialog about pitch counts for faculty starters, the pitch clock’s influence on efficiency and accidents, one potential draw back to the pitch clock reaching NPB, the Diamondbacks’ “victory vest,” and The Athletic’s layoffs and the state of sports media, plus a Past Blast from 2019.

Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Ohtani’s first homer
Link to Ohtani’s second homer
Link to MLB.com on drained Ohtani
Link to The Athletic on drained Ohtani
Link to FG WAR leaderboard
Link to B-Ref WAR leaderboard
Link to 26-under-25 draft
Link to draft voting outcomes
Link to Carroll/Henderson awards
Link to Royals/A’s publish
Link to tweet about school recreation ending
Link to varsity TOOTBLAN
Link to varsity dropped ball
Link to Cooper on pitch counts
Link to Jake on Mathews
Link to longer thread on Mathews
Link to Romano’s quote tweet
Link to 2016 research on school workloads
Link to 2018 school workloads research
Link to Dan S. on the pitch clock
Link to Jim Allen on the NPB clock
Link to report on the NPB clock
Link to victory vest story
Link to MLB’s Realmuto tweet
Link to “cyclone” tweet
Link to hockey’s “three stars”
Link to FG’s three gamers of the sport
Link to WaPo’s The Athletic report
Link to FOS The Athletic report
Link to 2017 story about The Athletic
Link to Axios media e-newsletter
Link to 2019 Past Blast supply
Link to 2015 robot-ump recreation
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to MLBTR on the Nevada vote
Link to Pujols hiring publish

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