Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2004: House of Cards

May 9, 2023

01:59:16

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Cardinals Running Off the Rails

2min

The Cardinals' Slow Start

4min

Contreras' Midlife Crisis

2min

Wilson Contreras and the Cardinals' Backlash

2min

The Scariest Part of the Cardinals' Season

2min

The Cardinals' Slow Start

4min

The Cardinals' Slow Start

5min

The Cardinals' Negative Response to Contreras

3min

10.

The Disconnect Between the Front Office and the Manager

4min

11.

The Long Shadow of Yadi

2min

12.

The Tension Between Continuity and Transition in the Cardinals

3min

13.

Yadi's Black Magic and Necro Mansor Abilities Are Helping the Cardinals Maintain Their Devil Magic

2min

14.

The Cardinals' Season Preview

4min

15.

The Cardinals Are Not Unbeatable

2min

16.

The Time Has Come

2min

17.

Lindberghs: A Book Review

4min

18.

The Time Has Come

2min

19.

Athens: A Baseball Movie

2min

20.

The Slow Start for the Guardians of Oscar Gonzalez

1min

21.

How to Chart High School Baseball Fields in Every State of the Country

2min

22.

What Constitutes a Weird Field?

2min

23.

How to Find All the Fields in a Field

2min

24.

How I Created Outline Graphics for My Thing

2min

25.

The Different Types of Weird Fields

2min

26.

The Different Types of Weird Fields

2min

27.

How to Rank States by Population in Acres

2min

28.

The Field of Dreams

2min

29.

The Oddity of Major League Baseball Parks

2min

30.

The Variation in Square Footage of Baseball Fields

2min

31.

The Dimensions of a Wild Park

2min

32.

How to Be a Successful Sports Data Visualization Artist

2min

33.

How to Map Weeds

2min

34.

How to Be a Successful Stat Blast Consultant

2min

35.

How to Develop Skills for Stat Blasting

1min

36.

How to Code Statistically

2min

37.

Zach Granky Strikes Out 20% of Active Managers in MLB

4min

38.

The Longest Played Aspect in Baseball

2min

39.

The 18 Pitch Stat Signal

2min

40.

The Pirates Hot Start Has Cooled, but They Continue to Be in First Place

2min

41.

The Longest Losing Strike in History

3min

42.

The Pirates' Record for Most Times a Team Has Goed Nine Up and Nine Down Through the First Three Instances in a Season

2min

43.

How to Find a Non-Latin Name in Baseball

2min

44.

The Rareness of the Names in Major League History

4min

45.

The Longest Strike in MLB History

3min

46.

The Longest Gap Between Episodes on Effectively Wild

2min

47.

The Unusual Marketing Partnership Between MLB and Columbia Pictures

3min

48.

The Zen of Baseball

5min

Ben Lindbergh talks to Will Leitch about the Cardinals’ horrendous start, their baffling decision to bar big free-agent addition Willson Contreras from catching, how Yadier Molina’s legacy looms over the franchise, how Oli Marmol and John Mozeliak have handled the team’s struggles, how the rest of the season might go, and more, along with the […]

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