Effectively Wild Episode 1930: Meat Your Maker

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani and the Cy Young Award, Buck Showalter and the Manager of the Year Award, Bryce Harper’s elbow surgery, the Angels signing Tyler Anderson, Anthony Rizzo and the Yankees’ record Defensive Runs Saved total, the Mariners trading for Teoscar Hernández, title inflation and the “associate manager,” and Royals owner John Sherman requesting a new ballpark, plus a double Past Blast (38:21) from 1930 (featuring Jack Powell’s meaty demise). Then (51:06) they talk to FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen about AFL award winners Heston Kjerstad and Connor Thomas, whether improvements carry over when players change teams, how rules changes are affecting player evaluation, this week’s 40-man-deadline roster crunches, and Kodai Senga and other NPB players who are coming to MLB. Audio intro: Tri-State, “Hawk in the Fog” Audio interstitial: Jordana, “Crunch” Audio outro: The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, “Mr. Powell” Link to MLB.com on Showalter Link to Ben Clemens on Anderson Link to Hawk Harrelson call Link to Jay Jaffe on Rizzo Link to highest team DRS totals Link to Defensive Efficiency leaders Link to Esteban Rivera on Teoscar Link to MLBTR on Venable Link to Sherman’s tweet Link to Field of Schemes on Sherman Link to AFL award winners Link to FG prospect rankings Link to Laurila on Boras Link to Alex Eisert on Hilliard Link to Evan Drellich on rule changes Link to R.J. Anderson on rule changes Link to MLBTR on the Rays’ roster Link to Eric’s AL East piece Link to Eric on Latin-American SP Link to MLBTR on Nolan Jones Link to 1930 story source Link to SABR on William Veeck Sr. Link to SABR on Margaret Donohue Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter Link to @OldBaseballNews on Twitter Link to article about Bill Haber Link to first Powell article Link to second Powell article Link to NL Cy results Link to Ben on Alcantara Link to AL Cy results  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