Effectively Wild Episode 2062: Competing Padres Postmortems

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the five-year anniversary of a Twitter wager about Adalberto Mondesi and Shohei Ohtani, then compare and contrast two in-depth articles about the problems supposedly plaguing the Padres and discuss how convincing they find those reports’ explanations for the team’s disappointing season (plus additional banter about the possible reasons for recently successful former Padre Mike Clevinger going unclaimed on waivers, and a few follow-ups). Audio intro: Josh Busman, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to Bill James tweet Link to Union-Tribune on the Padres Link to The Athletic on the Padres Link to Rob Mains on the Padres Link to Ginny Searle on the Padres Link to Pythag record wiki Link to story on Machado’s elbow Link to FG hitting clutch Link to FG pitching clutch Link to Ben’s RISP prediction episode Link to RISP through 5/25 Link to RISP since 5/25 Link to info on Padres in extras Link to Soto quote Link to Soto follow-up quote Link to BaseRuns records Link to article on Anthony Young Link to payroll-record correlation info Link to pitcher WAR since 7/29 Link to MLBTR on Clevinger Link to Clevinger/Smith kerfuffle Link to statement on Ohtani Link to Ohtani’s insta post Link to tweet about Ohtani Link to first Moyer statement Link to second Moyer statement Link to article on Gas Plant District  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