Effectively Wild Episode 1977: Season Preview Series: Blue Jays and Royals

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about catcher Grayson Greiner’ s height, Shohei Ohtani ’s titanic homers, tight t-shirt, and pepper-grinding in WBC exhibitions, and a few preview-related trivia questions, then continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the Toronto Blue Jays (15:02) with Kaitlyn McGrath of The Athletic , and the Kansas City Royals (55:25) with Anne Rogers of MLB.com, plus a Past Blast from 1977 (1:23:45) and trivia answers (1:32:46). 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 : Yo La Tengo, “ Shades of Blue ” Audio interstitial : The Joy Formidable, “ Into the Blue ” Audio outro : Don Gibson, “ Blue, Blue Day ” Link to tall-catchers EW episode Link to Sam’s Substack Link to first Ohtani dinger Link to longer dinger video Link to second Ohtani dinger Link to side view of first swing Link to side-by-side swings Link to Japan News on homers Link to MLB.com on the homer Link to 2022 pepper-grinder story Link to Nootbaar WBC story Link to other Nootbaar story Link to Ohtani’s tight t-shirt Link to “Shoebae” account Link to FanGraphs playoff odds Link to FG payroll breakdown Link to Blue Jays offseason tracker Link to Blue Jays depth chart Link to Kaitlyn’s spring preview Link to Kaitlyn on the OF dimensions Link to Travis on the OF dimensions Link to Statcast park factors Link to Kaitlyn’s author archive Link to Royals offseason tracker Link to Royals depth chart Link to 2022 rookie PA by team Link to profile of Quatraro Link to story on throwing strikes Link to Anne on “Raid the Zone” Link to Anne on Royals pitchers Link to story on KC ballpark sites Link to 1977 article source Link to Five Seasons on Goodreads Link to David Lewis’s Twitter Link to David Lewis’s Substack Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter Link to Ward on pitch-calling Link to Richard Hershberger’s book 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