Effectively Wild Episode 1991: Mascot Moment

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a Star Wars emergency and (5:17) an nVenue Apple odds update, then (8:57) answer listener emails about how good a team has to be to convince people that it’s cheating, a hypothetical Mike Trout ultimatum about Shohei Ohtani , whether MLB would ban a real-life Sidd Finch, whether not having to bat makes pitchers more likely to hit batters, which teams will have the most and fewest pitch-clock violations, clock-defeating schemes using baseballs and beach balls, the speediest strikeout, and mascot polling, followed by Stat Blasts (1:23:57) about the biggest velo differences in a game and on back-to-back pitches, the longest streaks of pitching appearances with a decision, the hardest-hit liners caught in the infield, and the latest in a season a division has gone without any team falling out of first for good, and a Past Blast (1:38:00) from 1991. Audio intro : Ted O., “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Ted O., “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to Daniel Chin on Star Wars Link to nVenue episode Link to NBA Launchpad info Link to more Launchpad info Link to Jeff on baseball LeBron Link to Rob Mains on hitting batters Link to Machado ejection Link to Anderson ejection Link to Ohtani violations Link to Rob on age and pace Link to Russell on pace and velo Link to pitch tempo page Link to Pitching Ninja video Link to 2023 velo uptick Link to mascot poll Link to Mariner Moose info Link to Slider info Link to listener emails database Link to Stat Blasts page Link to MPH differences sheet Link to decision-streak queries Link to Pederson liner Link to hardest-hit liner Link to Acuña liner Link to hardest-hit-liner leaders Link to corner liner leaders Link to simple division analysis Link to complex division analysis Link to 2006 NL West graph Link to 1991 Past Blast source Link to 1992 article Link to 1992 article continued Link to 2014 article Link to Hall obit Link to bases website Link to David Lewis’s Twitter Link to David Lewis’s Substack 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