Effectively Wild Episode 1707: Baseball-Reference Rewrites its Record Books

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s experience seeing Shohei Ohtani pitch, hit, and play right field in person, why balks can be so incomprehensible, the differing recent fortunes of the Angels and the Diamondbacks (and Albert Pujols ), Jacob deGrom ’s dominance and durability, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the big bats (and playoff fortunes) of the Blue Jays, and Baseball-Reference relaunching with the Negro Leagues reclassified as major leagues. After a break, they return (41:43) to talk more about the Baseball-Reference redesign, hearing first from researcher Larry Lester and Josh Gibson’s great-grandson Sean Gibson on the historic and personal significance of the new presentation of Negro Leagues stats and information, before bringing on Sports Reference president Sean Forman to explain how and why his company updated its display of Negro Leagues data, the ethical and practical considerations involved, and what will happen next. Audio intro : The Minders, " Same Time, Same Place " Audio interstitial : The Baseball Project, " They Played Baseball " Audio outro : The Baseball Project, " Jackie’s Lament " Link to highlights of Ohtani game Link to Ohtani balks breakdown Link to Ohtani balk face Link to Jay Jaffe on Ohtani’s MVP case Link to Sam on balks Link to Jon Bois balk rules Link to Blue Jays hard-hit-balls stat Link to MLB.com on deGrom Link to Dan Szymborski on the ERA record Link to Episode 1560 (with Larry Lester) Link to Episode 1626 (with Sean Gibson) Link to Episode 1630 (with Ron Teasley) Link to Larry Lester’s website Link to the Josh Gibson Foundation Link to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Link to the Seamheads Negro Leagues Database Link to Ben on Negro Leagues reclassification last August Link to Ben on Negro Leagues reclassification last December Link to Shakeia Taylor on merging records Link to James Wagner on the Baseball-Reference redesign Link to the new Baseball-Reference Negro Leagues hub 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