Effectively Wild Episode 1834: Your Moment of Zen

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about their impressions of Opening Day, the “baseball zen” interludes on MLB.TV and Apple’s proposed broadcast innovations, Joey Votto’s in-game interview (and in-game interviews in general), a tasty new MLB sponsorship, PitchCom and pace of play, the fraught relationship between Ronald Acuña Jr. and Freddie Freeman, the Padres-Twins trade involving Chris Paddack and Taylor Rogers, and extensions for José Ramírez, Ke’Bryan Hayes, and J.P. Crawford but not for Aaron Judge (or a pair of Red Sox), plus a Stathead-sponsored Stat Blast (1:11:14) about the “on the money” players whose career production most closely matched their career earnings, and an ode to catcher receiving techniques (followed by a few updates and postscripts). Audio intro: Spirit, “Life Has Just Begun” Audio outro: Colin Blunstone, “I Wonder if You Know What You’ve Begun” Link to Jeff Passan on the CBA negotiations Link to article on Witt’s first hit Link to Ohtani pitching highlights Link to Tungsten Arm O’Doyle tweet Link to Beer walkoff homer Link to MLB/Dairy Queen press release Link to Votto in-game interview video Link to Ben on in-game player interviews Link to Ginny Searle on the Votto interview Link to Apple broadcast details Link to Acuña/Freeman story Link to second Acuña/Freeman story Link to Ben on “Let the kids play” Link to Lindsey Adler on Judge Link to Andy McCullough on Judge Link to Ken Rosenthal on Judge Link to Rogers twin pitching video Link to Ben Clemens on Ramírez Link to Jay Jaffe on Hayes Link to Jay on PitchCom Link to player impression of PitchCom Link to Stathead Link to Stat Blast data Link to Bart framing video Link to EW wiki on Episode 1523 Link to EW wiki Stat Blast page Link to Tigers tweet about Paredes Link to MLB player names guide  Sponsor Us on Patreon Subscribe to Stathead (Code: WILD20)  Facebook Group  Effectively Wild Wiki  Twitter Account  iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)  Get Our Merch!  Email Us: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source