Effectively Wild Episode 2205: (Don’t) Pick Six

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the White Sox walking Juan Soto to face Aaron Judge, how Judge’s season could’ve been even better, the world’s untapped baseball talent, Shohei Ohtani’s run at a 50-50 season, ways to discourage intentional walks, a proposal to mandate six-inning outings for starting pitchers, a changing of the guard atop the FanGraphs farm system rankings, the extraordinary defense of Austin Hedges, and the nature vs. nurture debate about MLB fathers and sons. Then (1:10:07) they meet major leaguers Daniel Robert, Yilber Diaz, and Michael Petersen, plus (1:34:35) several postscript updates. Audio intro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to Judge/Soto article 1 Link to Judge/Soto article 2 Link to Judge/Soto article 3 Link to Davy Andrews on the IBB Link to Judge mechanical changes Link to Ben/Sam on global talent Link to Ohtani splits by month Link to Ohtani pitching progress Link to listener emails database Link to six-inning-starts article Link to tweet about six-inning starts Link to would-be-disqualified starts Link to Ben on bullpenning Link to Ben on pitcher roster limits Link to FG farm rankings Link to Pipeline farm rankings Link to Baez homer Link to Trueblood on Hedges Link to Hedges BP player card Link to BP catcher defense leaderboard Link to “framing chances” definition Link to Hedges PitchCom article Link to Ben on Hedges in 2015 Link to BP C defense since 2015 Link to Molina framing montage Link to Yadi running-game graph Link to Ben on framing improvements Link to fathers/sons data Link to LaRoche retrospective Link to B-Ref new debuts Link to Kenny Jackelen’s Twitter Link to Robert article 1 Link to Robert article 2 Link to Diaz article 1 Link to Diaz article 2 Link to Diaz strawberries photo Link to Petersen article 1 Link to Petersen article 2 Link to Petersen debut game log Link to Petersen interview clip Link to Petersen UK tweet Link to MLBTR on Hill Link to EW 1780 Stat Blast Link to Hill on EW Link to Hill/Anthony tweet Link to Fitzgerald play Link to Fitzgerald/Bonds stat Link to Fitzgerald article 1 Link to Fitzgerald article 2 Link to Fitzgerald plays data Link to RE charts Link to Melvin clip Link to Ben C. on the play Link to Ben C. on bunt math Link to Rob Mains on zombie bunts Link to Rob on bunts again Link to The Sandlot audio clip Link to The Sandlot video clip Link to Space Jam clip Link to The Benchwarmers video clip Link to 1955 newspaper clip Link to Torgeson vs. Spahn Link to Wade/Ward wiki 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