Effectively Wild Episode 1752: Photo Finish

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Giancarlo Stanton ’s awe-inspiring weekend at Fenway, the most aesthetically pleasing home run hitters, what the Cardinals’ 16-game winning streak portends (or doesn’t portend) for their playoff hopes, and the last week in the remaining playoff races. Then (26:32) they bring on Patreon supporter Dylan Buell to talk about his career as a professional sports photographer and answer listener emails about setting a winning-percentage cutoff for admission to the postseason, subtracting a strike for each pitch thrown outside the strike zone, a baseball equivalent of the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year Award, other baseball occupations that should be eligible for the Hall of Fame, how players’ appearances can affect fandom, baseball players sneaking onto Survivor , and the problems with plate-discipline highlights, plus Stat Blasts about precedents for the MVPs in both leagues coming from non-playoff teams, and the Rangers’ possibly unparalleled streak of innings without a lead. Audio intro : The Glands, " So High " Audio interstitial : The Pretty Things, " Photographer " Audio outro : Bill Jr. Jr., " Run Home " Link to Stanton homer against Chicago Link to longest Stanton homer against Boston Link to Ben on a Stanton homer from 2014 Link to video of that Stanton 2014 homer Link to Strawberry dinger videos Link to 1986 NLCS G3 homer Link to 1986 World Series G7 homer Link to Lindsey’s tweet about Stanton Link to Lindsey on Stanton and Judge Link to Glenallen Hill homer Link to Sam on home run highlights Link to Jay Jaffe on September records Link to study on playoff randomness by sport Link to Dylan Buell’s Instagram Link to Nav Bhatia article Link to 2016 article on Blue Jays scarf fan Link to 2020 article on Blue Jays scarf fan Link to article about Loretta’s Lounge Link to article on Pros vs. Joes Link to video of Jeff Kent on Survivor Link to Ben on the Soto Shuffle Link to article on the Rangers’ streak Link to second article on the Rangers’ streak Link to leadless streaks data Link to 1916 Pirates/1932 Sox streaks data Link to end-of-inning losing streaks data Link to info on non-playoff MVPs 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