Effectively Wild Episode 2019: Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Sportswriters

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani leading MLB in WAR and the number of times his hitting has leapfrogged his pitching or vice versa, the EW audience’s verdict on who won the pod’s recent 26-under-25 draft, the suddenly-quite-competitive A’s-Royals race for the worst record in baseball, a painful ending to a college playoff game and the evolving conversation about pitch counts for college starters, the pitch clock’s impact on performance and injuries, one potential downside to the pitch clock reaching NPB, the Diamondbacks’ “victory vest,” and The Athletic’s layoffs and the state of sports media, plus a Past Blast from 2019. Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to Ohtani’s first homer Link to Ohtani’s second homer Link to MLB.com on tired Ohtani Link to The Athletic on tired Ohtani Link to FG WAR leaderboard Link to B-Ref WAR leaderboard Link to 26-under-25 draft Link to draft voting results Link to Carroll/Henderson awards Link to Royals/A’s post Link to Rob Mains on mobility Link to tweet about college game ending Link to college TOOTBLAN Link to college dropped ball Link to Cooper on pitch counts Link to Jake on Mathews Link to longer thread on Mathews Link to Romano’s quote tweet Link to 2016 study on college workloads Link to 2018 college workloads study Link to Dan S. on the pitch clock Link to Jim Allen on the NPB clock Link to report on the NPB clock Link to victory vest story Link to MLB’s Realmuto tweet Link to “cyclone” tweet Link to hockey’s “three stars” Link to FG’s three players of the game Link to WaPo’s The Athletic report Link to FOS The Athletic report Link to 2017 story about The Athletic Link to Axios media newsletter Link to 2019 Past Blast source Link to 2015 robot-ump game Link to David Lewis’s Twitter Link to David Lewis’s Substack Link to MLBTR on the Nevada vote Link to Pujols hiring post  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