Effectively Wild Episode 1356: Keep Your Eye on the Bat

Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and Meg Rowley banter about Sam’s cabin sojourn, how well Major League has held up, an exciting development in strategic bat tosses, a big day for Willians Astudillo, the difficulty of drawing conclusions about baseball early in the season, the early-season home-run rate, the paradox of sports radio, Sam’s Jose Ramirez hot take, bunting against four-man outfields, service-time manipulation and Kyle Freeland, whether we would notice if MLB stealthily implemented robot umps, and check-swing mistakes, plus Stat Blasts about Luke Voit and perfect starts to the season, the most MLB games ever played in one day, the longest gaps between pairings of the same pitcher and catcher, and Yu Darvish and the most pitches thrown in a game before the first ball in play. Audio intro: Disclosure, "Together" Audio outro: Frank Sinatra, "We’ll Be Together Again" Link to Sam on strategic bat tosses Link to Swanson bat toss Link to research on hitters being ahead of pitchers Link to Martin pitching appearance stats Link to article about position players pitching with leads Link to day with the most games played Link to longest gaps in pitcher-catcher pairings Link to list of games with most pitches before first BIP Link to box score for Darvish start Link to box score for Martinez start Link to article about MLBPA grievance Link to preorder The MVP Machine  iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)  Sponsor Us on Patreon  Facebook Group  Effectively Wild Wiki  Twitter Account  Get Our Merch!  Email Us: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source