Effectively Wild Episode 1989: Baseball Goes Back to the ’80s

Ben Lindbergh and Noah Woodward of the newsletter The Advance Scout discuss Noah’s front-office career, the impact of the MLB rules changes on pace/time of game, the running game, and hitting and defense so far, how players may adapt, the questions Ben and Noah still have about the rules’ long-term effects, Rob Manfred’s characterization of analytics as “an arms race to nowhere,” and more. Then (1:00:26) Ben brings on LJ Rader of the Twitter/Instagram account Art But Make It Sports to explain how he cleverly juxtaposes sports scenes with images of paintings and sculptures, whether baseball lends itself well to his work, and his best baseball images, plus a Past Blast (1:40:16) from 1989 and a few closing thoughts (1:46:42). Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio interstitial: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to Noah’s Substack Link to Noah’s BP archive Link to Noah on changeups Link to Noah on back-picks Link to Noah on pickoffs Link to Noah on pickoff substitutes Link to Noah on Greinke Link to article on clock momentum Link to Jaffe on late-season momentum Link to Dan S. on playoff momentum Link to Russell on momentum Link to Mariners-fan countdown Link to Sam on Corbin Link to Baumann on Orioles running Link to Ben C. on steals Link to Volpe SB article Link to Jeff on Lester Link to Jayson Stark on OF shifts Link to new “sweeper” classification Link to Ben on the pitch clock Link to Ben on pitcher limits Link to Ben on mound moving Link to Tango on game times Link to Petriello on BABIP Link to Passan on stat changes Link to Manfred on analytics Link to Lewie Pollis on EW Link to Lewie on leaving a dream job Link to Lewie’s follow-up piece Link to R.J. on front-office brain drain Link to MLB Closed Captioning Link to @UnfortunateMLB Link to Umpire Scorecards Link to Would it Dong? Link to Art But Make it Sports Insta Link to Art But Make it Sports Twitter Link to Art But Make it Sports website Link to Araujo EW episode Link to SI on LJ Link to LJ’s Bednar post Link to LJ’s proposal post Link to LJ’s Ventura/Ryan post Link to LJ’s Siri post Link to LJ’s Muncy post Link to LJ’s Murphy post Link to 1989 Past Blast source Link to 1989 Hadley paper Link to 1992 Hadley paper Link to 1993 Hadley paper Link to 1991 MLB payrolls Link to David Lewis’s Twitter Link to David Lewis’s Substack Link to Ward/Wade wiki Link to Arcia prediction story Link to Turner mic’d up Link to Ben on mic’d up players Link to McKenna/Duvall video Link to Stathead on Duvall Link to Pagliaroni game Link to errors preceding walkoffs Link to EW on Shamsky Link to EW on Shamsky again Link to Bowie Baysox meetup Link to Caught Steelin’ band  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