Effectively Wild Episode 2023: What’s Past Blast is Prologue

Ben Lindbergh addresses an interview upgrade on the preceding episode, chats with FanGraphs’ Dan Szymborski about Luis Arraez ’s chances of batting .400, Stat Blasts (22:36) about extremes in team winning and losing streaks, welcomes in David Lewis (28:00) for the final Past Blast, and talks to prolific science fiction (and baseball science fiction) author Rick Wilber (44:48) about being the son of big leaguer Del Wilber , his career and love for baseball and sci-fi, and the podcast’s forthcoming Future Blast series, plus a postscript (1:26:00) about Tyler Wells and Taylor Walls , Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani , Rob Manfred and public ballpark funding, contentious plays at the plate, and a new walk-up-music database. Audio intro : Andy Ellison, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : The Gagnés, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to Carleton interview episode Link to MLB.com on Arraez Link to Dan on Arraez Link to Statcast park factors Link to Foolish thread on AVG+ Link to AVG+ leaderboard Link to story about Reds’ latest win Link to Reds streak fun fact Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter Link to longest in-season-streaks sheet Link to more streaks data Link to Past Blast EW wiki page Link to 2023 Past Blast source Link to Ben on the pitch clock Link to Ben on the pitch clock again Link to B-Ref’s new rules page Link to Rickwood Field story Link to Hinchliffe Stadium story Link to first Dick Trueman episode Link to second Dick Trueman episode Link to David Lewis’s Twitter Link to David Lewis’s Substack Link to Rick Wilber’s website Link to Wilber’s baseball works Link to My Father’s Game Link to Del Wilber’s SABR bio Link to Lucky Starr wiki Link to Wade/Ward wiki Link to Trout/Betts interview Link to Trout/Ohtani at-bat Link to Bochy ejection video Link to Melvin ejection video Link to the NYT on plate-blocking Link to Heim’s replay-review gesture Link to Manfred’s Time interview Link to scholars survey on funding Link to story on the Astros comment Link to trade trees site Link to trade values site Link to thread on walk-up-songs site Link to MLB walk-up-songs site Link to The Walk-Up Database Link to walk-up-site requests thread 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