Effectively Wild Episode 2270: Trouble With the Curved Bat

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a new escalation in “breakout” creep, the Blue Jays signing Jeff Hoffman, risk tolerance in transactions, alternate spellings of names, Roki Sasaki’s effect on the market for international amateur free agents, another example of a team offering a higher salary in arbitration than a player requested, Mets owner Steve Cohen’s financial returns, Nick Castellanos on MVP Jose Iglesias, and a 19th-century curved-bat idea (1:08:44), plus (1:22:40) a Stat Blast on the players who’ve appeared in the most distinct team matchups. Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to breakouts post Link to Jeff on HoF artifacts Link to Clemens on Hoffman Link to MLBTR on Hoffman Link to Hoffman press release Link to Madisynn clip Link to MLBTR on Sasaki Link to article on Sasaki effects Link to Flanagan arb post Link to WSJ on Cohen Link to Castellanos clip Link to banana bat article 1 Link to banana bat article 2 Link to banana bat article 3 Link to banana bat article 4 Link to banana bat article 5 Link to Alan Nathan physics site Link to bat boning wiki Link to Stat Blast sheet 1 Link to Stat Blast sheet 2 Link to Ben on Stairs Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter Link to MiLB draft data Link to EW gift subscriptions  Sponsor Us on Patreon  Email Us: [email protected]  EW Subreddit  Effectively Wild Wiki  iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)  Spotify Feed  Facebook Group  Bluesky Account  Twitter Account  Get Our Merch! var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source