Effectively Wild Episode 1872: A Moderate Amount of Hijinks

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley rant and banter (ranter?) about MLB’s approach to promoting the Futures Game, then (17:33) discuss superheroes throwing baseballs, the latest exploits of the semi-superpowered Shohei Ohtani and Sandy Alcantara , and Ohtani’s chances against Aaron Judge (and others) in the AL MVP race, Stat Blast (39:03) about losing teams with two hyper-productive players and pitchers with the most even pitch-type distributions, entertain the idea (59:59) of adjusting WAR for quality of competition because of position-player pitchers, speculate about Judge’s free-agent contract, highlight Luis Arraez’ s pursuit of Ted Williams , an Andrew Vaughn hidden-ball-trick attempt, Charlie Blackmon ’s walk-up song, a fateful Rockies shift, observe (1:23:10) which teams’ playoff probabilities have risen or sunk the most in the last month and react to MLB’s asterisk-esque All-Star Game caps, and close (1:32:32) with a Past Blast from 1872. Audio intro : Status Quo, “ The Future’s So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) ” Audio outro : Heart, “ Hijinx ” Link to Futures Game rosters Link to Jarrett Seidler on MiLB talent Link to 2023 WBC announcement Link to The Boys Season 1 clip Link to Invincible clip Link to Superman Returns clip Link to Alvarez throw Link to video about baseball movies Link to story on Judge’s 30th homer Link to story about Ohtani’s game Link to FG combined WAR leaderboard Link to Angels PR tweet Link to other Angels PR tweet Link to third Angels PR tweet Link to Jeremy Frank tweet Link to video of HRs off of VanMeter Link to Katie Sharp tweet Link to Stathead Link to Stat Blast list of losing teams Link to Dan on sub-replacement Angels Link to Alcantara’s pitch usage Link to least-used-top-pitch data Link to lowest-standard-deviation data Link to Rob Mains on adjusted offense Link to Craig on Judge’s contract Link to PPP velo by year Link to Patrick on the Rockies’ loss Link to tweet about the Rockies’ positioning Link to clip of Rockies-Dodgers play Link to TikTok of Blackmon’s song Link to playoff odds changes Link to France ASG video Link to asterisky Astros cap Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four Link to 1872 story source Link to history of infield fly rule 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