Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1994: Down Goes Dinger

Apr 15, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Importance of Understanding Average Velocity and NPB

3min

Shouhei Otani: A WBC Teammate's Disagreement

2min

Otani's Unhittable Pitch

5min

Otani's by the Way Stats

4min

Mike Trout's Sprint Speed

3min

How to Be Pedantic About Tom Hanks

2min

The Death Star and the Death Star

2min

The Unhittable Pitch Question

3min

10.

The Potential Improvements to the Rules of Baseball

2min

11.

The Effect of Participation on Baseball

5min

12.

NPV Average Vulnerability

2min

13.

NPB vs MLB vs NPB

2min

14.

The Effect of the Wild's Email Hypothetical Surveys

2min

15.

How to Sleep Overnight at Your Favorite Stadium

6min

16.

The Importance of PR in Baseball

3min

17.

Rupert Murdoch and the RSN Situation

2min

18.

The RSN Blackout and the Decline of the Cable Model

6min

19.

The Economics of Opting Out Clauses in Baseball

4min

20.

The Cost of Opting Out of Contracts

4min

21.

The Value of Having a Baseball Staff Who Plays the Ownership Shill Role

3min

22.

The Rise of Stealing of Third Base

3min

23.

The Slowdown in Stealing Third Base

3min

24.

How to Scamper to Third Base

3min

25.

Tops Sponsored Baseball Cards

2min

26.

The Changes in Baseball

2min

27.

The Tops Now Card of the Week

2min

28.

The Most First Hits in a Game

2min

29.

The Record for First Hits in a Game

2min

30.

The History of Jackie Robinson Day

2min

31.

The Best Season of a Major Leaguer's Life

4min

32.

The Long Term Effects of Retired Players on Baseball

4min

33.

The Top 10 Long-Language Players in Baseball

5min

34.

The Taxonomy of Pantslessness

4min

35.

Dinger Is the Dinosaur

2min

36.

The Man Who Salted Dinger

5min

37.

The 1994 Commissioner's Power Change

3min

38.

MLB Catcher to Wear a Microphone During a Game

1min

39.

How to Talk to a Catcher in Real Time

3min

40.

The Unhiddable Pitch

2min

41.

How to Summon Things Into Existence

2min

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about an NPB matchup between Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki, those aces’ current talent levels and MLB futures, how velocity has climbed in NPB compared to MLB, and how stealing bases seems to be the one thing Shohei Ohtani (and, for that matter, Mike Trout) can’t do. Then (18:52) […]

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