Effectively Wild Episode 1277: The Best Baseball is Back

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a wild end to the regular season, including the season’s final Willians Astudillo update (maybe), endings for Joe Mauer , David Wright , and Mike Scioscia , Khris Davis batting .247 again , the Orioles’ final ignominy, surgery for Shohei Ohtani , final regular-season stats about strikeouts, hits, homers, and fastball velocity, Jeff Wilpon’s incredible comments, an unprecedented two-tiebreaker day, the upcoming wild card games, and more. Then they bring on White Sox and ESPN broadcaster Jason Benetti to discuss ESPN 2’s alternative, stat-slanted broadcast of the NL wild card game, the future of sabermetric broadcasts, and playoff storylines and commentating cliches, and Ben talks to baseball-book author and math and statistics professor Jim Albert about the odds of Davis finishing with the same batting average in an unprecedented four consecutive seasons. Audio intro : The Replacements, " When it Began " Audio interstitial 1 : T. Rex, " Jason B. Sad " Audio interstitial 2 : The Neighborhood, " 24/7 " Audio outro : The Postal Service, " Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) " Link to Mauer catching video Link to Wilpon comments Link to Jim Albert’s homepage Link to new edition of Analyzing Baseball Data with R 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