Effectively Wild Episode 1933: Bats, Bets, Ballots, and Blasts

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about omissions from their Baseball Twitter draft, a few transactions (including the Kyle Lewis trade, the Gio Urshela trade, and multiple shortstop swaps), the Angels acquiring average players, the Dodgers non-tendering Cody Bellinger , the Phillies extending Dave Dombrowski, the new BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot and Ben’s ballot decision, a series of sports-betting investigations, a college-baseball trailblazer, comeback players of the year, and more, plus Stat Blasts (54:28) about Aaron Judge and intra-team WAR gaps, the most unique players put out, consecutive innings with double plays, and the timing of game-winning runs, a Past Blast (1:04:06) from 1933, and an Angels postscript. Audio intro : Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek, “ Angels ” Audio outro : Mimi Roman, “ Never Ramble, Never Gamble, Never Roam ” Link to Heyman tweet Link to Baer tweet Link to Nightengale tweet Link to Bautista tweet Link to Justin Choi on Lewis Link to Baumann on shortswaps Link to MLBTR on Dombrowski Link to MLBTR on Bellinger Link to Jay on the BBWAA ballot Link to Jay on the committee ballot Link to EW on Ben’s ballot last year Link to NYT sports-betting thread Link to NYT sports-betting article 1 Link to NYT sports-betting article 2 Link to NYT sports-betting article 3 Link to NYT sports-betting article 4 Link to Olivia Pichardo news Link to comeback players story Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter Link to WAR-gap Stat Blast data Link to putouts Stat Blast data Link to game-winning-runs data Link to Rob Mains on comebacks Link to 1933 story source Link to SABR on Browns ownership Link to MLB.com on the Browns Link to SABR on Jackie in Montreal Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter Link to MLBTR on the Renfroe trade Link to tweet about Renfroe and Trout 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