Effectively Wild Episode 1786: The Rosin for the Season

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the United States of Shohei Ohtani and Baseball-Reference player page popularity, a perplexing fact about fielding percentage, time-shifted baseball (and watching only wins), learning to love a sport later in life, whether pruney fingers would be a performance-enhancer for pitchers, the great rosin bag battle of the 1920s and ’30s, sketching Mike Trout, and more. Audio intro: Sparks, “Popularity” Audio outro: The Electric Prunes, “It’s Not Fair” Link to Baseball-Reference year-end stats Link to Trueblood tweet about fielding percentage Link to EW email questions database Link to pruney skin explainer Link to historical life expectancy story Link to Craig R. Wright on rosin bags Link to Wright’s subscription story series Link to Rob Arthur on the spin rate resurgence Link to Alex Speier on testing tacky baseballs Link to Trout sketches on Reddit Link to Patreon trivia contest Link to stream Stove League via Viki  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