Effectively Wild Episode 2085: Do You Want an Award?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast


Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a low-suspense awards week, the vastly varying paths to being a major league manager, the latest sign of the Angels player-development apocalypse, Brian Cashman on Giancarlo Stanton, the death of Padres owner Peter Seidler, Michael Jordan’s baseball career on For All Mankind, how much holding runners matters, and how to judge how many championships a franchise “should” have won, then Stat Blast (1:08:56) about postseason baserunning, scoring first in October, winning rings without playing a lot, and players who lost a lot of WAR, plus a PSA (1:31:02) about EW Secret Santa.

Audio intro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Posnanski on unanimous awards
Link to Meg’s preseason predictions
Link to “Imperial phase” wiki
Link to Sheehan on managers
Link to story on college-coach managers
Link to Blum on Percival
Link to Cashman’s comments
Link to Stanton’s agent’s response
Link to NYT Seidler obit
Link to FAM Jordan image
Link to Petriello on running prevention
Link to the EW wiki on Lester
Link to running prevention leaderboards
Link to BP piece on championships
Link to Topps Now
Link to Rob Mains on October baserunning
Link to Rob on comebacks
Link to “scoring first” sheet
Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter
Link to low-playing-time-rings sheet
Link to Bellinger on EW
Link to Gore on EW
Link to “lost WAR” sheet
Link to FG on Doumit’s framing
Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a low-suspense awards week, the vastly varying paths to being a major league manager, the latest sign of the Angels player-development apocalypse, Brian Cashman on Giancarlo Stanton, the death of Padres owner Peter Seidler, Michael Jordan’s baseball career on For All Mankind, how much holding runners matters, and how to judge how many championships a franchise “should” have won, then Stat Blast (1:08:56) about postseason baserunning, scoring first in October, winning rings without playing a lot, and players who lost a lot of WAR, plus a PSA (1:31:02) about EW Secret Santa.

Audio intro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Posnanski on unanimous awards
Link to Meg’s preseason predictions
Link to “Imperial phase” wiki
Link to Sheehan on managers
Link to story on college-coach managers
Link to Blum on Percival
Link to Cashman’s comments
Link to Stanton’s agent’s response
Link to NYT Seidler obit
Link to FAM Jordan image
Link to Petriello on running prevention
Link to the EW wiki on Lester
Link to running prevention leaderboards
Link to BP piece on championships
Link to Topps Now
Link to Rob Mains on October baserunning
Link to Rob on comebacks
Link to “scoring first” sheet
Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter
Link to low-playing-time-rings sheet
Link to Bellinger on EW
Link to Gore on EW
Link to “lost WAR” sheet
Link to FG on Doumit’s framing
Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet

 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: podcast@fangraphs.com

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2023-11-15 94 min
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