Effectively Wild Episode 2209: The Catcher Bug Catcher

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Derek Jeter ‘s (and Aaron Judge’ s) championship-or-bust rhetoric, Alex Rodriguez’ s date night, Judge’s home-run robberies, Judge’s offensive prowess compared to Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds , how clutchness (or the lack thereof) could affect the AL MVP race, Juan Soto’ s defense, how the trajectory of Seattle’s season may have sealed Scott Servais’s fate, the Royals’ valuable durability, Michael Kopech as a Dodger, Dallas Keuchel’ s latest destination, the new, old Jacob deGrom , and Jordan Montgomery’ s and Blake Snell’ s contrasting takes on Scott Boras. Then (1:14:39) they bring back Sports Reference software developer (and primary developer of Baseball-Reference.com) Kenny Jackelen to describe the work that went into ensuring that Danny Jansen ’s unique two-teams-in-one-game performance diddn’t break B-Ref. Audio intro : Philip Bergman, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio interstitial : Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Jimmy Kramer, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to Jeter quote Link to 2019 Judge quote Link to 2023 Judge quote Link to 2023 Judge quote 2 Link to story on 2009 reunion Link to duck tour incidents Link to A-Rod date night 1 Link to A-Rod date night 2 Link to Babe Ruth Award wiki Link to FG batting paces Link to FG WAR leaderboard Link to single-season wRC+ leaders Link to single-season batting leaders Link to hitting leaders since 5/1 Link to SIS Judge stat Link to Judge robbery article Link to “locked in” quote Link to “locked in” quote 2 Link to Judge’s splits Link to Tango on Judge’s clutchness Link to FG Clutch leaderboard Link to batting WPA leaders Link to pitching WPA leaders Link to batting cWPA leaders Link to pitching cWPA leaders Link to spring Soto play Link to EW on Soto’s play Link to Bradley/Soto article Link to Soto’s defensive history Link to Ben on Harper’s defense Link to Selig Rule article Link to Wilson wiki Link to Sheehan on the Royals Link to BP IL Ledger Link to 2024 team batting age Link to Jaffe on Kopech Link to Sox Machine on Kopech Link to Keuchel signing article Link to Carmen Sandiego theme song Link to deGrom rehab article 1 Link to deGrom rehab article 2 Link to deGrom rehab article 3 Link to Montgomery comments Link to Snell comments Link to MLBTR on Montgomery/Snell Link to MLBTR on Montgomery’s agent Link to Jaffe on the Boras Four Link to @mattomic tweet Link to Kenny’s first EW appearance Link to Cora on Jansen Link to B-Ref game page Link to Jansen game log Link to Forman tweet 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