Effectively Wild Episode 2368: F Everything, We’re Doing Five Taters

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about John Brebbia’ s return to the big leagues, Kyle Schwarber ’s four-homer game, the potential for a position-player-pitcher-assisted five -homer game, Heliot Ramos and dingers on extremely slow pitches, an interminable inning, whether the playoff race is over and, if so, whether that’s an indictment of the 12-team format, and the profusion of recently promoted pitchers potentially in line for postseason starts, then (55:50) answer listener emails about season-ending injuries, accounting for player intention in WAR, “rounding home,” giving pitchers tall shoes, making baseball less random, the worst on-field feeling, pitcher aesthetics, and mid-PA pitching changes, plus (1:36:34) follow-ups. Audio intro : Beatwriter, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Nate Emerson, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to MLBTR on Brebbia Link to The Onion headline Link to four-homer-games query Link to Schwarber’s dingers Link to article on Suárez game Link to Ramos homer Link to slowest HR pitches Link to Rob Arthur on exit speed Link to pitch-count tweet Link to Nats-Yanks game Link to pitch-count query Link to Keyser on the playoff race Link to Sheehan on the playoff race Link to Baumann on the playoff race Link to Andrews on the playoff race Link to the AP on strikeouts Link to McLean info Link to Tong info Link to Tolle info Link to Baumann on Rodriguez Link to Marucci email Link to Seinfeld clip Link to possessions info Link to Ben on mid-PA pitching changes Link to listener emails database Link to Rounding Home book Link to Rounding for Home book Link to Rounding Home movie Link to “Rounding Home” headline Link to Berkson’s paradox Link to Berkson and baseball Sponsor Us on Patreon Give a Gift Subscription Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com Effectively Wild Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki Apple Podcasts Feed Spotify Feed YouTube Playlist Facebook Group Bluesky Account Twitter Account Get Our Merch! var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source