Effectively Wild Episode 1862: Forbidden Ball Trick

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Joe Maddon’s mohawk, the latest details about Mike Trout’s (and Tommy Pham’s and Joc Pederson’s) legendary fantasy football league, a rash of hidden-ball-trick attempts, the “old guy’s still got it” resurgences of Nelson Cruz and Joey Votto, how big a deal Aaron Judge’s potentially historic home-run pace should be, the two-way dominance and unsurpassed hard-hitting of the Yankees (including Matt Carpenter’s hot start with the team), the AL East hogging half of the AL’s prospective playoff berths, the excellence of José Ramírez, Tommy Edman’s breakout, Ben’s new peeve about a certain type of homer, the latest extremes in position-player pitching, Walker Buehler’s injury and the NL West race, the longest-ever collective winning and losing streaks by a division, the NL East race, the winning ways of the Braves and Ronald Acuña Jr., and the history of the “base hit,” plus a Past Blast from 1862. Audio intro: Francis Lung, “Bad Hair Day” Audio outro: Vanessa Peters, “A Good Judge” Link to Maddon mohawk report Link to 2008 mohawk story Link to Gonzalez firing story Link to Randolph firing story Link to clip of Trout on ESPN Link to Votto’s May 2 tweet Link to Dan Szymborski on Votto Link to story on Votto’s hot streak Link to FG on-pace leaderboard Link to expected HR leaderboard Link to Stanton’s 120 mph homer Link to Ben on Stanton in 2017 Link to list of hardest-hit balls Link to Rosenthal on rebuilding Carpenter Link to Ohtani HR off the wall Link to Stark on position-player pitchers Link to story on Higashioka’s homer Link to Mike Fast on the slowest pitch Link to Jay Jaffe on Buehler Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four Link to 1862 story source  Sponsor Us on Patreon Subscribe to Stathead (Code: WILD20)  Facebook Group  Twitter Account  EW Subreddit  Effectively Wild Wiki  iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)  Get Our Merch!  Email Us: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source