Effectively Wild Episode 1704: How the Foreign-Substance Crackdown Could Go

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter (sans spoilers) about baseball movie A Quiet Place Part II , Eric Sogard sliding over first base, a Travis Jankowski TOOTBLAN, Miguel Sanó repeatedly predicting success, and Jesse Winker raking, then consider whether it’s actually “unfortunate” that the first true two-way player in ages is as good as Shohei Ohtani , answer listener emails about the two-way-player Mendoza Line and whether pitcher Ohtani or hitter Ohtani would win a head-to-head matchup, and conclude with an in-depth discussion about what might happen and what we’ll learn if MLB does crack down on foreign-substance usage. Audio intro : Dawes, " Crack the Case " Audio outro : Bachelor, " Aurora " Link to Sogard slide Link to Jankowski TOOTBLAN Link to Twins triple play Link to 2017 Sanó triple play prediction Link to 2021 Sanó triple play prediction Link to Sanó 3-homer-game prediction Link to Sanó 2014 season prediction Link to list of players with multiple 3-homer games Link to Devan Fink on Winker Link to Jeremy Frank tweet about Ohtani Link to R.J. Anderson on Ohtani vs. Ohtani Link to video of Ohtani facing himself in VR Link to Buster Olney on MLB’s crackdown Link to Ken Rosenthal on Joe West and MLB Link to Bauer’s Players’ Tribune piece Link to Bauer on morals Link to Dylan Hernández on Bauer and the Dodgers Link to Fabian Ardaya on Bauer and spin Link to The Athletic on Spider Tack Link to Ben on foreign substances Link to SI on foreign substances Link to Travis Sawchik on foreign substances 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