Effectively Wild Episode 2271: Deaths Came in Three

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast


Deaths don’t actually come in threes—unfortunately, there are many more than that—but Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley begin by marking the passings of a trio of notable figures: David Lynch, Bob Uecker, and Tommy Brown. Then (35:27) they talk about the maybe-momentous signing of a Japanese player not named Roki Sasaki (Shotaro Morii), follow up on previous conversations about “breakout” creep, answer a couple of questions about breakouts, and then respond to listener emails on other topics, including nicknames for pitches, the evolving meaning of “moneyball,” phasing out Hall of Famers, and a modification to the infield fly rule.

Audio intro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Lynch NYT obit
Link to Uecker NYT obit
Link to Uecker acting roles
Link to Brown NYT obit
Link to Brown AP obit
Link to Brown SABR bio
Link to Brown text interview
Link to Brown audio interview
Link to MLBTR on Brown
Link to 1940s clippings on Brown
Link to Ben’s Brown Twitter thread
Link to The Athletic on Morii
Link to Silver on breakouts
Link to skeuomorph wiki
Link to Detroiters on Netflix
Link to Ben on Detroiters
Link to Baker on LinkedIn
Link to infield fly play
Link to Strike Four
Link to listener emails database
Link to grumkins wiki
Link to EW gift subscriptions

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Deaths don’t actually come in threes—unfortunately, there are many more than that—but Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley begin by marking the passings of a trio of notable figures: David Lynch, Bob Uecker, and Tommy Brown. Then (35:27) they talk about the maybe-momentous signing of a Japanese player not named Roki Sasaki (Shotaro Morii), follow up on previous conversations about “breakout” creep, answer a couple of questions about breakouts, and then respond to listener emails on other topics, including nicknames for pitches, the evolving meaning of “moneyball,” phasing out Hall of Famers, and a modification to the infield fly rule.

Audio intro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Lynch NYT obit
Link to Uecker NYT obit
Link to Uecker acting roles
Link to Brown NYT obit
Link to Brown AP obit
Link to Brown SABR bio
Link to Brown text interview
Link to Brown audio interview
Link to MLBTR on Brown
Link to 1940s clippings on Brown
Link to Ben’s Brown Twitter thread
Link to The Athletic on Morii
Link to Silver on breakouts
Link to skeuomorph wiki
Link to Detroiters on Netflix
Link to Ben on Detroiters
Link to Baker on LinkedIn
Link to infield fly play
Link to Strike Four
Link to listener emails database
Link to grumkins wiki
Link to EW gift subscriptions

 Sponsor Us on Patreon
 Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com
 EW Subreddit
 Effectively Wild Wiki
 iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)
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 Bluesky Account
 Twitter Account
 Get Our Merch!

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2025-01-17 108 min
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