Effectively Wild Episode 1846: One-Night Standings

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the joys of a pitcher’s duel between Shohei Ohtani and Rich Hill, have a spoiler-free discussion about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness being a baseball movie, examine whether the historically hapless Reds are truly tanking or are just a case of Nutting gone wrong, and talk about the state of the standings (including which teams have seen their playoff odds rise or fall the most in the first month of the season), followed by an update on league leaders and Manny Machado vs. Nolan Arenado, a suggested definition for “modern baseball,” listener-submitted examples of baseball skeumorphs, four pedantic questions about baseball, Ben’s confession of an Olaf-from-Frozen phobia, and an attempt to quantify the Cardinals’ varied sprint speeds. Audio intro: T. Rex, “Universe” Audio outro: Dent May (Feat. Frankie Cosmos), “Across the Multiverse” Link to Ohtani highlights video Link to Ohtani’s 29 whiffs Link to article about Ohtani’s game Link to combined WAR leaderboard Link to article on Doctor Strange joke Link to EW episode on the multiverse Link to article on the Mets in Endgame Link to other article on the Mets in Endgame Link to EW on the Mets in Endgame Link to EW again on the Mets in Endgame Link to Jayson Stark on the Reds Link to Passan’s tweets about the Reds Link to Baseball Prospectus IL Ledger Link to changes in playoff odds Link to preseason playoff odds Link to Dan Szymborski on the White Sox Link to Jay Jaffe on the Mets Link to news about Correa’s finger Link to news about Lewis callup Link to news about Yankees vaccinations Link to Ben on Machado vs. Arenado Link to MLB tiebreaking procedure Link to sprint speed leaderboard Link to sprint speed SD by team Link to Riley O’Brien EW episode  Sponsor Us on Patreon Subscribe to Stathead (Code: WILD20)  Facebook Group  Effectively Wild Wiki  Twitter Account  iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)  Get Our Merch!  Email Us: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source