Effectively Wild Episode 1968: Season Preview Series: Guardians and Rangers

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley lament the newly codified permanence of the zombie runner, rededicate themselves to “ghost runner” reeducation, and banter about a new position-player-pitching limitation, Andrew Chafin’ s surprisingly modest contract, Derek Jeter joining Fox Sports, baseball’s leading newsbreakers vs. the leading newsbreakers in other sports, baseball officiating vs. football officiating, the schedule for Triple-A robo umps, and a 1937 proposal for baseball photo finishes. Then they continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the Cleveland Guardians (35:09) with MLB.com’s Mandy Bell and the Texas Rangers (1:12:18) with The Athletic ’s Levi Weaver , plus Past Blasts (1:55:08) from 1873 and 1968 and a few follow-ups. 2023 EW Season Preview Series AL BAL CHW ATH BOS CLE HOU NYY DET LAA TBR KCR SEA TOR MIN TEX NL ATL CHC ARI MIA CIN COL NYM MIL LAD PHI PIT SDP WSN STL SFG .intro-team, .intro-team td { font-family: lato, Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 20px; } .intro-team .intro-header { /*display: none;*/ text-align: center; } .team-lg { text-align: center; width: 100%; } /* [class^="team-box-"] > div { display: inline-block; width: 48%; } [class^="team-box-"] > div table { width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } [class^="team-box-"] > div td { background-color: #efefef; border: 1px solid #ccc; line-height: 2; text-align: center; cursor: default; } [class^="team-box-"] > div a { color: #000; text-decoration: none; display: block; width: 100% } [class^="team-box-"] > div a:hover { color: #50ae26; } [class^="team-box-"] > div a.link-inactive { color: #aaa; } */ Audio intro : Dawes, “ Everything is Permanent ” Audio interstitial 1 : 10cc, “ I’m Mandy Fly Me ” Audio interstitial 2 : Levi Weaver, “ Dark Clay ” Audio outro : Dr. Dog, “ Ebenezer Scrooge ” Link to rules announcements Link to extra-innings pace study Link to Ben on TLOU Link to Eric Stephen thread Link to Eno on pos. player pitchers Link to WaPo on PPP Link to Royals Review on PPP Link to MLBTR on Chafin’s option Link to MLBTR on Chafin’s signing Link to Stathead on leading LHRP Link to Leo Morgenstern on Chafin Link to Jake Mailhot on LHRP Link to Sheehan on NFL/MLB calls Link to Super Bowl holding play Link to MLB.com on Jeter Link to Katie Baker on Fox pregames Link to robo ump schedule Link to Max Bishop SABR bio Link to Craig Wright on Bishop Link to 1937 photo finish source Link to article on photo-finish camera Link to film development source Link to other film development source Link to FG team projections Link to payroll rankings Link to Guardians offseason tracker Link to Guardians depth chart Link to Rangers offseason tracker Link to Rangers depth chart Link to Levi’s wins prediction Link to Levi’s author archive Link to FG’s SP projections Link to FG’s LF projections Link to 2022 LF WAR by team Link to Bochy’s W-L record Link to 1873 article source Link to Rob Arthur on OF shifts Link to Rob on OF depth Link to 1968 article source Link to second ’68 article source Link to third ’68 article source Link to David Lewis’s Twitter Link to David Lewis’s Substack Link to CBA AAV rule Link to NHL contract rules Link to old CPBL logo Link to Brännboll wiki Link to Brännboll video Link to 1796 proto-baseball text Link to baseball exceptionalism wiki Link to A Christmas Carol ending 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