Effectively Wild Episode 2085: Do You Want an Award?

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a low-suspense awards week, the vastly varying paths to being a major league manager, the latest sign of the Angels player-development apocalypse, Brian Cashman on Giancarlo Stanton, the death of Padres owner Peter Seidler, Michael Jordan’s baseball career on For All Mankind, how much holding runners matters, and how to judge how many championships a franchise “should” have won, then Stat Blast (1:08:56) about postseason baserunning, scoring first in October, winning rings without playing a lot, and players who lost a lot of WAR, plus a PSA (1:31:02) about EW Secret Santa. Audio intro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to Posnanski on unanimous awards Link to Meg’s preseason predictions Link to “Imperial phase” wiki Link to Sheehan on managers Link to story on college-coach managers Link to Blum on Percival Link to Cashman’s comments Link to Stanton’s agent’s response Link to NYT Seidler obit Link to FAM Jordan image Link to Petriello on running prevention Link to the EW wiki on Lester Link to running prevention leaderboards Link to BP piece on championships Link to Topps Now Link to Rob Mains on October baserunning Link to Rob on comebacks Link to “scoring first” sheet Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter Link to low-playing-time-rings sheet Link to Bellinger on EW Link to Gore on EW Link to “lost WAR” sheet Link to FG on Doumit’s framing Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet  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