Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the percentage of MLB fans who are paying close attention to the World Series, discuss the White Sox filling MLB’s last managerial vacancy by hiring Pedro Grifol (along with Charlie Montoyo as bench coach), and then reflect on a few aspects of Game 3 of the World Series, including Dusty Baker’s decision-making, the surprising postseason defensive success of Nick Castellanos, a pitch-tipping uproar, and more. After that (47:32), they mull over an Atlantic article about the impact of “Moneyballism” on baseball and American culture, note the record average fastball velocity and strikeout rate this postseason, Stat Blast (1:09:55) about how umpire accuracy affects offense (and what that might mean for a robo-ump-infused future), and close with a Past Blast from 1924 (1:24:35), plus a postscript about the Astros’ combined no-hitter in Game 4.Audio intro: Jack White, “A Tip From You to Me”Audio outro: Aimee Mann, “Momentum”Link to MLBTR on the Grifol hiringLink to MLBTR on the Montoyo hiringLink to Shakeia Taylor EW episodeLink to study on manager demographicsLink to Shakeia on manager demographicsLink to Rob on manager demographicsLink to James Wagner managers threadLink to Baumann on Game 3Link to story about Baker and McCullersLink to story about Castellanos’s defenseLink to clip of Harper and BohmLink to Pedro on pitch-tippingLink to Rosenthal on pitch-tippingLink to The Atlantic articleLink to Rany’s thread on the articleLink to FG on postseason veloLink to BA on postseason veloLink to Passan on postseason veloLink to Ben Clemens on postseason KsLink to umpire Stat Blast dataLink to Lucas Apostoleris on TwitterLink to 1924 story sourceLink to story about Bohm commentsLink to story about booing SantaLink to tweet about cheering SantaLink to Jacob Pomrenke’s websiteLink to Jacob Pomrenke on TwitterLink to Russell on momentumLink to Russell on momentum againLink to FG World Series odds Sponsor Us on PatreonSubscribe to Stathead (Code: WILD20) Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.comvar SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {});Source