Effectively Wild Episode 2049: Seattle Slays

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s week away, Julio Rodríguez’ s hot streak and the Mariners’ surge, and the White Sox firing Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn, plus a grab bag of topics that caught Ben’s attention while he was in Sweden: the Dodgers signing Kolten Wong ; a Cubs adult-diaper ad; an oddly ricocheting Luke Raley home run; errors and official scoring, another incident that made Miles Mikolas mad; Riley Greene , Spencer Torkelson , and the Tigers’ rebuild; Bobby Witt Jr.’ s sophomore breakout; Nationals extensions, CJ Abrams , and Joey Meneses ; the similar seasons of J.D. Martinez and Justin Turner ; the potential for good teams to miss the playoffs, and radical realignment; Jon Singleton returning to the Astros; Dallas Keuchel continuing to pitch; a nifty Brewers trade revisited (and Christian Yelich ’s bounceback); the sale of Fogo de Chão; John Angelos’s latest groaners; preseason prediction philosophies, and more, plus a Future Blast (1:32:04) from 2049 and a few follow-ups (1:33:37). Audio intro : Daniel Leckie, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Daniel Leckie, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to Jay on Julio Link to mlb.com on Julio Link to Stark on Julio Link to info on latest M’s win Link to “Here Come the Warm Jets” Link to MLBTR on White Sox firings Link to The Athletic on Sox firings Link to article on Sox relocation Link to tweet about Cubs ad Link to Reddit thread on Cubs ad Link to Raley HR video Link to Defector on Raley’s homer Link to Kevin Cash quote Link to ballpark homogenization info Link to Stat Blast on official scoring Link to The Athletic on official scoring Link to Russell on official scoring Link to story on Mikolas/Alonso/Winn Link to more on Alonso/Winn Link to FG post on Witt Link to FG post on Abrams Link to MLBTR on Greene moving Link to MLBTR on Nats extensions Link to FG post on Yelich Link to Keuchel article Link to other Keuchel article Link to Singleton dingers Link to Bain buying Fogo Link to article on Escobar and Fogo Link to Angelos interview Link to Rob Mains on Angelos Link to Rick Wilber’s website Link to Future Blast wiki 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