Effectively Wild Episode 2270: Trouble With the Curved Bat

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a new escalation in “breakout” creep, the Blue Jays signing Jeff Hoffman, risk tolerance in transactions, alternate spellings of names, Roki Sasaki’s effect on the market for international amateur free agents, another example of a team offering a higher salary in arbitration than a player requested, Mets owner Steve Cohen’s financial returns, Nick Castellanos on MVP Jose Iglesias, and a 19th-century curved-bat idea (1:08:44), plus (1:22:40) a Stat Blast on the players who’ve appeared in the most distinct team matchups.

Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to breakouts post
Link to Jeff on HoF artifacts
Link to Clemens on Hoffman
Link to MLBTR on Hoffman
Link to Hoffman press release
Link to Madisynn clip
Link to MLBTR on Sasaki
Link to article on Sasaki effects
Link to Flanagan arb post
Link to WSJ on Cohen
Link to Castellanos clip
Link to banana bat article 1
Link to banana bat article 2
Link to banana bat article 3
Link to banana bat article 4
Link to banana bat article 5
Link to Alan Nathan physics site
Link to bat boning wiki
Link to Stat Blast sheet 1
Link to Stat Blast sheet 2
Link to Ben on Stairs
Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter
Link to MiLB draft data
Link to EW gift subscriptions

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