Effectively Wild Episode 2093: Like Catnip

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and top-tier Patreon supporter Kevin Peskuric banter about and quantify the difference between the receptions to an @MLB tweet about a Shohei Ohtani cat encounter and an @Yankees tweet about Henry Kissinger. Then (18:48) they talk about Kevin’s background as a baseball fan and EW listener, answer listener emails (32:13) about whether facing only bad hitters could get a pitcher to the Hall of Fame, activating a five-second pitch clock once per game, a team-wide Freaky Friday -esque body swap, and describing players’ bodies in scouting reports, and Stat Blast (1:07:39) about players with more WAR than HR, interdivision records and the AL Central, and the most pitches thrown in a game before the first whiff, followed by a radio-play-style Future Blast (1:33:31) from 2093. Audio intro : Jonathan Crymes, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Andy Ellison, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to Twitter ratio explanation Link to Ohtani cat tweet Link to Yankees Kissinger tweet Link to Biden’s Kissinger statement Link to Rolling Stone Kissinger obit Link to “Nobody:” meme Link to info on view counts Link to info on Twain misquotation Link to Jeff on opponent quality Link to BP team opponent quality Link to EW Episode 2089 Link to hurry-up offense wiki Link to Trout hypotheticals wiki Link to Ben on Reds scouting reports Link to Ben on Scout School Link to scouting glossary Link to Rob on MLB handsomeness Link to Rob on MiLB handsomeness Link to halo effect wiki Link to Colon’s nickname info Link to Stathead on WAR>HR Link to Rob on division records Link to Rob’s interdivision data Link to Rob on Twitter Link to 1998 Baseball Weekly article Link to 1998 Ocker article Link to 1998 AP article Link to 1998 game’s play log Link to 2000 game’s play log Link to 2007 game’s play log Link to latest-first-whiff data Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter Link to 1985 Mantle/Radatz article Link to Mantle/Radatz H2H record Link to Sam on Musial/Labine Link to listener emails database Link to Future Blast text Link to Rick Wilber’s site Link to Alan Smale’s site Link to 1932 WS clip Link to The Naked Gun clip Link to O’Neill cylinder wiki Link to Ami Li on Twitter Link to Chris Hanel on Twitter Link to Shane McKeon on Twitter Link to Dan Szymborski on Twitter Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet 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