Effectively Wild Episode 1952: Slash Diction

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and longtime listener and Patreon supporter Jacob Barak banter about Jacob’s baseball-fan background, EW origin story, and much-discussed post about a Shohei Ohtani conundrum in the podcast’s Facebook group, then (10:35) answer listener emails about why we use dashes instead of slashes in displaying hitter’s hits and at-bats, unorthodox infield designs, where the money from competitive balance tax penalties goes, an Aaron Boone quote about “a championship and then some,” playing baseball with balls from other sports, teams tailoring the baseball to their pitchers’ strengths, the fewest games in a -1.0 WAR season and demanding a trade in the minors, the best teams from other leagues beating the worst teams from MLB, whether baseball is bad or good for the world, and the prospect of an MLB player coming out as trans or non-binary, plus Carlos Correa banter, a Stat Blast (1:21:41) about the late Nate Colbert and Padres home run hitters, a Past Blast (1:42:53) from 1952, and a few postscript updates. Audio intro: Wire, “Dot Dash” Audio outro: Jethro Tull, “Jacob’s Tales” Link to Jacob’s Facebook post Link to latest on Correa Link to Ben C. on FA movement Link to history of fraction slashes Link to Stark on second base Link to Stark on infield dirt Link to EW Pesäpallo episode Link to Evan’s first tweet Link to Evan’s second tweet Link to Boone video Link to Yankees captains Link to fewest G, -1 WAR hitters Link to fewest G, -1 WAR pitchers Link to Clay’s league strengths Link to Rays Pride Night story Link to Canha interview Link to EW Brennaman episode Link to EW emails database Link to previous Colbert banter Link to Padres HR leaderboard Link to Stat Blast data Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter Link to players w/164+ HR since ’75 Link to Padres ’69-’74 WAR leaders Link to ’69-’74 team wins Link to Colbert’s SABR bio Link to Colbert’s RBI record Link to more on the record Link to ’69-’73 HR leaders Link to Ben on Padres stars Link to first Padres cycle Link to first Padres no-hitter Link to 1952 story source Link to SABR on the ’52 Meetings Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter Link to MLBTR on Bauer Link to Twins “DFA” tweet Link to Hill hype video Link to SABR on 3-team DHs Link to Turner’s Vassegh tweet  Sponsor Us on Patreon  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