Effectively Wild Episode 1866: That Sinking Feeling

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about two spectacular games by Shohei Ohtani and Ohtani’s extraordinary playing-time pace and relay a sinker-iffic response from Michael Lorenzen to a previous discussion about baseball grip, then (24:22) answer listener emails about using different-colored balls to denote different levels of liveliness, how much time to train players have in-season, whether fielders are to blame when their gloves develop holes, outlawing webbed gloves to raise BABIP, single-game team home-run records, whether players who come up now are already conditioned by pitch clocks, PitchCom and pace, which single stat they would most want to know about hitters and pitchers, and how many appeals a ball-strike challenge system should allow, plus (1:23:17) a Past Blast from 1866. Audio intro : Jon Brion, “ Hook, Line and Sinker ” Audio outro : Japanese Breakfast, “ Boyish ” Link to Ohtani game stories Link to FG combined WAR leaderboard Link to Langs tweet Link to pre-2022 combined BF+PA data Link to Lorenzen comments Link to MLB mud memo Link to sinker HBP rate Link to Annie Hall clip Link to Justin Choi on sinkers Link to Ben on pitching machines Link to Diaz glove video Link to Vlad glove video Link to Rob Arthur on low BABIP Link to 2015 story on age and pace Link to Rob on pace and velo Link to Russell on pace and velo Link to Rob on batter age and pace Link to 27-and-under SP pace Link to 28-and-over SP pace Link to team homer records in game Link to team homer records in season Link to MiLB experimental rules Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four Link to 1866 story source Link to Creighton SABR bio Link to tweet about Pabor’s nickname Link to Thorn on Pabor’s nickname Link to Gavarni illustration Sponsor Us on Patreon Subscribe to Stathead (Code: WILD20) Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source