Effectively Wild Episode 1934: How to Bring Back Bellinger’s Bat

Ben Lindbergh convenes a roundtable of hitting analysts—Robert Orr from Baseball Prospectus, Esteban Rivera from FanGraphs, and Ryan Parker, formerly of Baseball Prospectus and the Los Angeles Angels—to diagnose the problems with free agent Cody Bellinger’s much-diminished bat and recommend how to revive it. They also discuss their approaches to analyzing hitting, coachability, the differences between public and private hitting analysis, the importance of mashing mistakes, the Angels, and more. Then (1:15:03) Ben closes with a Past Blast from 1934 and a few followups about Bellinger, tweets, and assists on strikeouts. Audio intro: Wednesday, “Cody’s Only” Audio outro: The Killers, “Cody” Link to Dan Szymborski on Bellinger Link to story on Bellinger’s shoulder Link to story on Bellinger’s leg Link to Chris Gilligan on Bellinger Link to Ken Rosenthal on Bellinger Link to Prospects Live on Bellinger Link to Bellinger vs. Musgrove K Link to Versalles SABR bio Link to SwingGraphs Link to SwingGraphs data Link to Esteban on Acuña Link to Esteban on vertical bat angle Link to Robert on crushing cookies Link to Rosenthal on Angels moves Link to Joon Lee on the Angels system Link to EW with Clay Bellinger Link to 1934 story source Link to Biele article series Link to story on Ella Black Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter Link to MLBTR on Harper’s TJ Link to Blue Jays tweet Link to Canseco at Vice Link to Canseco on time travel Link to assists story 1 Link to assists story 2 Link to assists story 3 Link to assists story 4  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