Effectively Wild Episode 2030: Deadline Dilemmas and Needs

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s All-Star Week plans, play “Would you rather?” with the White Sox and Cardinals, the Padres and Mets, Carlos Rodón and Alek Manoah , and the Rangers and Diamondbacks, compare the values of Pablo López and Luis Arraez (26:25), discuss starting pitchers who might be available at the trade deadline (29:33), run down the dilemmas facing a few teams on the border between buying and selling, and use projections (44:06) to identify the positions on contending teams that are most in need of an upgrade. Then (1:05:15) they Stat Blast about the most baserunners allowed while facing the minimum, low-scoring division leaders, the Nationals’ odd home/away split, Chris Vallimont and players traded right after debuting, the all-time leaders in up-and-down seasons, pitchers’ error-prone throwing, whether an official-scoring conspiracy is boosting batting averages, and Shohei Ohtani with and without Mike Trout batting behind him, plus (1:50:21) a Future Blast from 2030 and a few follow-ups. Audio intro : Liz Panella, “ Effectively Wild theme ” Audio outro : Xavier LeBlanc, “ Effectively Wild theme ” Link to FG playoff odds Link to combined WAR leaderboard Link to team SP WAR leaders Link to team wRC+ leaderboard Link to BaseRuns standings Link to article on Carroll’s shoulder Link to Rosenthal on available SP Link to Rosenthal on Stroman Link to positional projections Link to contenders’ top needs Link to “facing the minimum” games Link to Nats split 1 Link to Nats split 2 Link to MLBTR on Vallimont Link to previous traded players Link to up-and-down leaders Link to Kenny Jackelen on Twitter Link to Ben on the fake to 3rd Link to Hicks walk-off Link to Woodpeckers game story Link to FB thread on game endings Link to 2005 K-Rod ending Link to 1995 Dodgers ending Link to Castillo pop-up play Link to error-rates-by-position sheet Link to pitcher-error data Link to Laurila on errors Link to yearly fielding per-game rates Link to yearly hitting per-game rates Link to error/BIP stats/graphs Link to Chow test wiki Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter Link to Ben on Ohtani after 2021 Link to research on lineup protection Link to Ohtani with/without Trout Link to plate discipline with/without Link to hitters behind Ohtani Link to Lucas Apostoleris on Twitter Link to Sean Dolinar on Twitter Link to listener emails database Link to Rick Wilber’s website Link to 1978 Parker article Link to later 1978 Parker article Link to Parker’s SABR bio Link to 2009 Parker article Link to 2022 Parker post Link to MLBTR on Pérez 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