Effectively Wild Episode 1966: Joe West, Young Man

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and Effectively Wild listener/Patreon supporter Alana Crockett banter about Alana’s baseball background, pitcher representation in the MLB and MLBPA logos, and former umpire Joe West allegedly editing his own Wikipedia page, then (26:44) answer listener emails about a “cheap team tax” in trades, a pitching coach superpower, trading for the Rays’ front office, batters tossing the ball to themselves, a reboot of The Baseball Bunch , batters predicting pitch types, and called strikeouts on pitches straight down the middle, plus a Stat Blast (1:22:21) about Fernando Valenzuela and players with the best statistical cases to have their numbers retired, a Past Blast (1:47:21) from 1966, and a few follow-ups. Audio intro : Cowboy Joe West, “ Out at Home ” Audio outro : Mates of State, “ Everyone Needs an Editor ” Link to new MLBPA logo Link to MLB “duck” logo Link to MLB logo origin story Link to NBA logo origin story Link to Joe West Reddit thread Link to Joe West wiki Link to Crewchief22 talk page Link to Hershiser game box score Link to Hershiser game video Link to other Hershiser game video Link to EW emails database Link to SP/RP velo study Link to exit velo breakdown Link to The Baseball Bunch wiki Link to The Baseball Bunch oral history Link to story about other Gary Cohen Link to other Cohen’s IMDb page Link to LaRoche retrospective Link to latest Votto video Link to Votto’s top hat Link to Trevino video Link to Rob on the banging scheme Link to the Nichols Law Link to Harry’s game-calling study Link to EW episode with Harry Link to Cameron’s game-calling study Link to EW episode with Cameron Link to Cameron’s Guardians tweet Link to catcher RDTD K leaders Link to catcher fastball RDTD K leaders Link to pitcher RDTD K leaders Link to story on Valenzuela Link to Stat Blast spreadsheet Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter Link to list of retired numbers Link to story on Dodgers candidates Link to story on Garvey’s number Link to story on Mussina’s number Link to Berkman commercial Link to 1963 Past Blast source Link to CICL MLB alumni Link to 1966 story source Link to David Lewis’s Twitter Link to David Lewis’s Substack Link to Nugget’s Instagram Link to Reddit study on Klentak Link to article on Earth’s core Link to “Go west, young man” wiki Sponsor Us on Patreon 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