Effectively Wild Episode 2009: Safe By a Hair

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up with additional details about the Cardinals’ cheeseburger phone, banter about the hot hitting of Ronald Acuña Jr. and Aaron Judge, answer listener emails (31:13) about home run rituals and the unwritten rules, a prophylactic procedure to prevent Tommy John surgery, whether a runner could be safe because of his beard, the percentage of players who could be on the same statistical list as a Hall of Famer, whether pitchers fan batters or vice versa, a rapid player promotion, and making fan interference part of the game, react to a Luke Voit “beef” reference, meet Major Leaguers Josh Walker and Garrett Acton (1:13:46), Stat Blast about entire divisions being better than entire other divisions, players batting without a position, and streaks of starting pitchers with the same handedness (1:27:39), plus follow-ups and a Past Blast from 2009 (1:42:22). Audio intro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to Goold on phone details Link to burger image Link to burger GIF Link to home run rituals Link to Lawless bat flip Link to “beanball” wiki Link to FG WAR leaderboard Link to xWOBA leaderboard Link to other Ben on Acuña Link to Sheehan on Acuña/Judge Link to story about prophylactic TJ Link to more on TJ Link to even more on TJ Link to bearded Napoli slide Link to Speier tweet Link to Episode 1426 Link to spirit week explainer Link to listener emails database Link to story on Walker Link to more on Walker Link to even more on Walker Link to MLBTR on Walker Link to Walker interview Link to Acton debut story Link to Acton’s first K Link to BA on Acton Link to FG on Acton Link to background on Acton Link to Ben on pitcher deception Link to new MLB debuts Link to Voit video Link to Topps Now cards Link to ALE/ALC standings Link to tweet about “nothings” Link to SABR on “nothings” Link to most “nothing” PA Link to most “nothing” runs created Link to Russell on SP handedness Link to 2009 Past Blast source Link to more on Ripken’s site Link to even more on the site Link to video on the site Link to David Lewis’s Twitter Link to David Lewis’s Substack Link to long hair article  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