Effectively Wild Episode 1612: Strength in Phone Numbers

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the status of the designated hitter and answer a listener email with a Stat Blast about hitters who’ve homered from every spot in the lineup, then (23:11) bring on Cleveland life skills coordinator Jen Wolf to talk about her career path in baseball, what a life skills coordinator for an MLB team does, how her work with players has differed from the norm this year because of the pandemic, the group text she started for women working in baseball operations, the progress women have made in the MLB workforce, the obstacles and challenges they continue to face, how to improve the pipeline of candidates and encourage the league and teams to hire more diverse candidates, and much more. Audio intro : Other Lives, " We Wait " Audio interstitial : Math and Physics Club, " In This Together " Audio outro : Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording), " Wait for It " Link to Passan’s DH report Link to Ben on the DH Link to Adam’s home run research Link to New York Times article on Jen’s group text Link to Jen’s LinkedIn page Link to Professor Manning’s Baseball/American Society course Link to MLB Diversity Fellowship Program Link to non-cis men in baseball group 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