Effectively Wild Episode 1616: MLB’s Other Cheating Problem

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Marlins hiring Kim Ng and the significance of Ng becoming MLB’s first woman GM, the Angels hiring Perry Minasian and the team’s ownership issues, Kyuji Fujikawa and an NPB unwritten rule, Ryan Tepera’ s accidental MVP vote, and how FanGraphs readers feel about 2020’s new rules, plus a Stat Blast about Brandon Belt , Brandon Crawford , and the most prolific putout tandems in MLB history. Then (43:30) they talk to The Athletic’ s Eno Sarris and former MLB pitcher David Aardsma about MLB’s problem with pitchers using banned foreign substances, touching on how foreign substances help, how prevalent they are, Aardsma’s personal experience with foreign substances, how players learn to use them, whether getting a better grip really helps hitters’ safety, Trevor Bauer ’s possibly substance-enhanced Cy Young award, whether sticky stuff will be baseball’s next big scandal, what MLB can do to address its widespread rule-breaking behavior, the future of player development, and more. Audio intro : Imperial Teen, " The First " Audio interstitial : Della Mae, " It’s About Time " Audio outro : Courtney Barnett, " Kim’s Caravan " Link to Lindsey Adler on Kim Ng Link to Christina Kahrl on the first woman GM Link to Christina Kahrl interview episode Link to Rosenthal’s report on Minasian Link to Bill Shaikin on Moreno’s ownership Link to Fujikawa unwritten rules story Link to video of Saito’s last batter Link to story about Mantle and McLain Link to Tepera explanation Link to Tepera tweet Link to Jay Jaffe’s rules survey results Link to putout tandems data Link to Ben on foreign substances Link to Eno on foreign substances Link to Rob Arthur on foreign substances Link to Eno on Bauer’s 2018 experiment Link to Defector on Bauer’s 2020 Link to Pineda ejection video Link to Angels foreign substance lawsuit story Link to article about Blue Jays layoffs 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