Effectively Wild Episode 1735: In Play, Run(s)

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Germán Márquez and the ethics of diarrhea disclosure, stretched pitching staffs that were supposed to be deep, the Orioles and Diamondbacks competing for MLB’s worst record, a somewhat deceptive salary floor in MLB’s economic proposal (and the future of the ongoing CBA talks), Mets owner Steve Cohen’s critical tweet about his team’s underperforming bats, Chris Bassitt’ s injury and protecting pitchers from line drives, Freddie Freeman’ s cycle, and Shohei Ohtani ’s latest two-way day and improved pitching. Audio intro : The Roches, " Runs in the Family " Audio outro : Ezra Furman, " Haunted Head " Link to Defector on Marquez’s diarrhea Link to Meg on Bradley’s diarrhea Link to Park’s diarrhea video Link to Ben Clemens on the Padres Link to FanGraphs farm system rankings Link to report about MLB economic proposal Link to JJ Cooper thread on salary cap/floor Link to Travis Sawchik on a payroll floor Link to EW episode with former MLBPA exec Link to Steve Cohen tweet Link to Mets hitting coach’s reaction Link to Mets manager’s reaction Link to Ray Kroc story Link to Jay Jaffe on Bassitt Link to story on Tyler Zombro Link to story on Brandon Patch Link to 2016 MLB story on pitcher headgear Link to 2016 ESPN story on pitcher headgear Link to 2016 story on mandating helmets Link to 2017 story on protective cap inserts Link to Freeman’s cycle video Link to Freeman’s cappucino story Link to Twitter thread about “Cyclones” Link to Vlad’s emoji response Link to Ohtani’s homer celebration Link to Ohtani vs. Tigers video 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