Effectively Wild Episode 1428: The Big Dombrowski

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Michael Lorenzen , Shohei Ohtani , and two-way terminology, marvel at Eugenio Suárez and other surprises from the 2019 home run leaderboard, celebrate the AL wild card race, salute the improving A’s and Rays, and discuss teams that are reshaping their potential playoff rosters late in the regular season, respond at length to the breaking news that the Red Sox have fired president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski less than a year after winning the World Series, and then play a Cy Young award game and analyze the legacy of Justin Verlander . Audio intro : Ben Folds, " Fired " Audio outro : Midnight Oil, " Short Memory " Link to story on Mitch Garver’s reinvention Link to Ken Rosenthal’s speculation about Dombrowski Link to Alex Speier’s book Homegrown Link to Ben on Boston’s post-championship complacency Link to Passan report on Dombrowski Link to Baumann on Verlander Link to FiveThirtyEight article on Verlander Link to Craig Edwards on Verlander’s home run rate Link to order The MVP Machine iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Effectively Wild Wiki Twitter Account Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source