Effectively Wild Episode 1909: The Podcasts Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the inadequacies of dental insurance and Ben’s rewarding trip to Citi Field, a Marlins marketing strategy, Richard Bleier ’s balk debacle, pitchers getting the memo about throwing strikes to Aaron Judge and Judge’s difference-making performance even when he doesn’t homer, preliminary Stat Blasts (41:33) about the most consecutive secondary pitches thrown to a batter in a game and the redundancy of RBI as a Triple Crown stat, finding things to savor in the regular season even with a shortage of standings suspense, more Stat Blasts (59:33) about the Braves’ extreme day/night split revisited, Fibonacci Sequence scoring, getting replaced before a second PA in both ends of a doubleheader, combined/relay cycles, Albert Pujols and homering on the most dates during the regular season, and games getting away from cruising pitchers, plus a Past Blast from 1909 (1:33:56) and a real-time reaction to Judge’s 61st (1:38:40). Audio intro : Ezra Furman, “ My Teeth Hurt ” Audio outro : Son Volt, “ Afterglow 61 ” Link to Marlins marketing tweet Link to Dan S. on Meneses Link to Bleier balks story Link to Bois’s balk rules Link to Sam Miller on balks Link to Rob Mains on the Year of the Balk Link to first episode about Judge/strikes Link to consecutive secondaries sheet Link to FG Junis post Link to article on HR/SB leaders Link to FG standings suspense post Link to Stathead Link to Stathead webinar Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter Link to Atlanta day/night data Link to Fibonacci Sequence explainer Link to Fibonacci games Link to doubleheader replacement data Link to post on relay/combined cycles Link to relay/combined cycles sheet Link to Seinfeld reference clip Link to info on ex-cruising pitchers Link to Russell on replacing pitchers Link to EW emails database Link to 1909 story source Link to Tim Murnane SABR bio Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter Link to video of Judge’s homer Link to Lindsey on relievers catching HR 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