Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2023: What’s Past Blast is Prologue

Jun 22, 2023

01:38:33

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Episode notes

Introduction

5min

The Probability of Louisa Rise Betting 400 This Season

2min

The Importance of Percentile Projection in Baseball

5min

The Zomborski Projection System for Zimps

2min

The Importance of Swinging at Out of Zone Pitches

3min

The Biodiversity of Baseball

4min

The Uncertainty of a 400 Hitter

2min

The Rise of Rarefied Air

5min

The History of Baseball

2min

10.

The Past Blast

5min

11.

The Past and the Present in Baseball

3min

12.

How to Find a Backlash in Baseball

2min

13.

The Impact of the Pitch Timer on Major League Baseball

2min

14.

The End of the National Pastime Dream

5min

15.

Rick Wilber: A Novellist and a Novellist

2min

16.

The Highlights of the Baseball Writing Career

2min

17.

The Dean of Science Fiction Baseball

2min

18.

My Father's Game

3min

19.

Interviewing an Old Pro's Former Ballplayer

4min

20.

The Importance of Being a Lifer

2min

21.

The Mystique of Baseball

5min

22.

The Nature of Major League Baseball

2min

23.

The Importance of Passion in Baseball

3min

24.

The Importance of Reading

3min

25.

The Pivots to Fiction and Science Fiction

2min

26.

The Importance of Science Fiction

2min

27.

The Mythology of Future Baseball and Effectively Wild

2min

28.

The Future of Baseball

3min

29.

The Rick Wilbur Rules Changes

2min

30.

The Science Fiction of Rick Wilbur

5min

31.

The Importance of Plays at the Plate

2min

32.

The Role of Place at the Plate in Baseball

5min

Ben Lindbergh addresses an interview upgrade on the preceding episode, chats with FanGraphs’ Dan Szymborski about Luis Arraez’s chances of batting .400, Stat Blasts (22:36) about extremes in team winning and losing streaks, welcomes in David Lewis (28:00) for the final Past Blast, and talks to prolific science fiction (and baseball science fiction) author Rick […]

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