Effectively Wild Episode 1814: The Angel in the Outfield

In an all-mailbag episode, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley answer listener emails about baseball with nine DH spots (and separate offensive and defensive units), baseball with eight lineup spots instead of a DH, a visual baseball rulebook, their favorite types of ballpark quirks, adjusting offensive stats for the behavior of the ball, an ethical question about preventing a Shohei Ohtani injury, anointing MLB’s biggest heel, bringing ultimate Frisbee’s self-officiating to baseball, posting the wrong lineup on the scoreboard to confuse an opposing team, a pitcher with one pitch but perfect (albeit limited) command, programming a robomanager, and more. Audio intro : Roxy Music, “ Three and Nine ” Audio outro : Belle and Sebastian, “ I Can See Your Future ” Link to Ben on pitcher hitting Link to BtBS on the universal DH Link to Star Trek Ringer MLB Show Link to ballpark homogeneity study Link to BP on LeMahieu Link to FanGraphs on LeMahieu Link to Gonny Jomes EW wiki page Link to video of Pierzynski play Link to Michael Baumann on Bregman Link to Incaviglia rule story Link to Robinson retirement story 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