Effectively Wild Episode 2158: Small Sausage Size

After a podcast preface by Ben Lindbergh about Mike Trout ’s knee injury (sigh), Ben and Meg Rowley banter (4:19) about a weekend White Sox sweep, the overdue news that Nike is supposedly fixing the much-maligned MLB uniforms, follow-ups about rule rollbacks, ballplayer dirt ingestion, the “group Maddux,” and promotion/relegation, and the Twins’ summer sausage. Then (50:37) they talk to FanGraphs’ Ben Clemens about when it’s safe to evaluate changes in player performance and which hitters and pitchers have changed his mind the most (either positively or negatively) so far this season, plus a postscript (1:45:05). Audio intro : Tom Rhoads, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio interstitial : Ted Berg, “ Small Sample Size Song ” Audio outro : Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to MLBTR on Trout’s knee Link to BP Recovery Dashboard Link to Trout baby announcement Link to Trout hypotheticals Link to Trout video Link to uniform memo report Link to The Athletic on unis Link to Greene pants tear Link to Drellich on MLBPA/Fanatics Link to Ben on pitcher limits Link to group Maddux response Link to summer sausage wiki Link to AP on the sausage Link to Athletic on the sausage Link to EW guest leaderboard Link to signature significance info Link to batted-ball predictiveness info Link to Russell on hitter stats Link to Russell on pitcher stats Link to Carty on hitter stats Link to Carty on pitcher stats Link to Dolinar on sample size Link to Russell on stability 1 Link to Russell on stability 2 Link to Ben C.’s riser picks Link to Ben C.’s faller picks Link to Orr on Abrams Link to Ringer preseason predictions Link to FG preseason top 100 Link to Clemens on Littell Link to Clemens on Musgrove Link to FG on Realmuto Link to Tango on Realmuto Link to Flaherty strikeouts story Link to outfielder box article Link to ballpark meetup forms Link to meetup organizer form 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