Effectively Wild Episode 2194: The Breakout Fakeout

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the likenesses, word counts, and stat citations on Hall of Fame plaques, what would happen if all past stats disappeared, the impending returns of Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw (and the recent return of J.T. Realmuto), the end of James Paxton’s time with the Dodgers, Jo Adell’s breakout fakeout and Jarren Duran’s belated breakout, Francisco Vicioso and Shaq Thompson, the morphing meme of Nick Castellanos, and the Brewers, the Mariners, and the challenge and payoff of rostering pretty good players. Audio intro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to Mauer plaque Link to Mauer hair commercial Link to Beltré plaque Link to Helton plaque Link to McGriff plaque Link to Leyland plaque Link to Ruth plaque Link to DiMaggio plaque Link to Mantle plaque Link to Fingers plaque Link to FB post on plaques Link to botched fresco Link to article on Cobb’s hits Link to WAR through age 27 Link to stats on hitter plaques Link to stats on pitcher plaques Link to BP on rewriting plaques Link to Robinson statue article Link to rebuilt Robinson statue Link to The Onion stats article Link to CME wiki Link to MLB reboot episode Link to MLBTR on Realmuto Link to MLB.com on Realmuto’s return Link to MLBTR on Trout Link to MLB.com update on Trout Link to Jaffe on Adell Link to EW on Adell in May Link to Sam on Duran Link to Gomes on Dodgers pitching Link to Reddit post on Vicioso Link to Vicioso footage Link to Shaq Thompson wiki Link to Ben on Shaq in 2012 Link to Shusterman on Shaq Link to Ben on Castellanos Link to Apstein on playoff Castellanos Link to Petriello on playoff Castellanos Link to Levine on Castellanos Link to McCarthy on Castellanos Link to Levi on Castellanos Link to Castellanos incidents tweet Link to Castellanos incidents thread Link to Jeff on avoiding the awful 1 Link to Jeff on avoiding the awful 2 Link to leading Brewers by PA Link to Sheehan on the Brewers Link to ballpark meetup forms Link to meetup organizer form  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