Effectively Wild Episode 2164: The Batcast Period

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter in regards to the “effectively wild” debut of Paul Skenes and the Pirates’ bases-loaded walkathon, an in-development TV sequence about Ippei Mizuhara, the demotion of Craig Kimbrel and doable commerce dangling of Mason Miller, the continued success of Davis Schneider, the influence of replay overview on the rise in catcher’s interference calls, and whether or not groups ought to return to rearranging their rotations based mostly on opponent high quality, then (39:14) convey on Mike Petriello of MLB.com to elucidate and talk about the current and way forward for MLB’s new Statcast-based bat-tracking metrics, plus (1:27:51) a couple of follow-ups.

Audio intro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Grandal interview
Link to Skenes gamer
Link to Skenes recreation field rating
Link to 1959 recreation field rating
Link to Ippei present story
Link to Uncut Gems wiki
Link to Kimbrel story 1
Link to Kimbrel story 2
Link to Sheehan on Kimbrel
Link to Rosenthal on Miller
Link to Schneider Reddit submit
Link to Schneider article
Link to SIS on CI calls
Link to Craig Wright on SP opponents
Link to EW Episode 812
Link to Darius Austin on SP opponents
Link to Matt Berry saying “bat”
Link to Mike on EW in 2022
Link to Mike on new metrics
Link to bat-tracking leaderboard
Link to quickest bats
Link to workforce leaders
Link to Contreras story
Link to Yankees slugger stats
Link to Ohtani bat stats
Link to Passan on bat stats
Link to Eno on bat stats
Link to Matan on bat stats
Link to Ben C. on bat stats
Link to Ben C. on bat stats 2
Link to Ben on second-guessing
Link to Tango on switch-hitters
Link to Tango on predictiveness
Link to Dril tweet
Link to KK play story
Link to EW on the KK play
Link to new fake-out catch
Link to Ryan Nelson tweet 1
Link to Ryan Nelson tweet 2
Link to ballpark meetup kinds
Link to meetup organizer type