Effectively Wild Episode 1997: This Time it Pitch Counts

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the podcast’s semi-official new nickname for Yandy Díaz, what Mookie Betts playing shortstop says about the Dodgers, and Andrew McCutchen’s hot start, then (15:29) answer emails about the Reds’ many mascots, why we stop at “Quadruple-A,” how good today’s 26th men would be if they traveled back in time, sticky stuff on a tacky ball, and whether MLB would ever privatize publicly accessible Statcast data, followed (47:48) by a Stat Blast about Ross Stripling and the ultimate swingmen, the longest identical sequences of team wins and losses, and whether working the count to get pitchers out of games is still all it’s cracked up to be, plus a recap (1:23:03) of the first time the A’s played MLB games in Las Vegas and a Past Blast (1:30:27) from 1997. Audio intro: Benny and the Jeffs, “Effectively Wild” Audio outro: Jacket Thor, “My Patron Saint” Link to FG post on Mookie Link to Mookie’s play at short Link to Eric Stephen on Mookie Link to Smyly/Gomes play Link to MLB mascots wiki Link to Reds mascots page Link to Ben on Triple-A strength Link to Clay D. on league strength Link to Ben on caliber of play Link to MLBTR on pre-tacked balls Link to Topps NOW cards Link to Seinfeld clip Link to Stripling on EW Link to MLBTR on Stripling Link to Slusser tweet about Stripling Link to swingmen GS/GR ratio Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter Link to travelling salesman problem Link to Graham’s tweet Link to Turner’s quotes Link to Tango on 3-2 counts Link to article on pitch counts/TTOP Link to WP when SP doesn’t go 5 Link to 2018 opener article Link to 1996 articles on A’s in Vegas Link to Cashman Field wiki Link to 1997 Past Blast source Link to NYT on radical realignment Link to Tribune on radical realignment Link to Grant on radical realignment Link to B-Ref on radical realignment Link to Hendriks announcement  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