Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about catcher Grayson Greiner’s height, Shohei Ohtani’s titanic homers, tight t-shirt, and pepper-grinding in WBC exhibitions, and a few preview-related trivia questions, then continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the Toronto Blue Jays (15:02) with Kaitlyn McGrath of The Athletic, and the Kansas City Royals (55:25) with Anne Rogers of MLB.com, plus a Past Blast from 1977 (1:23:45) and trivia answers (1:32:46).
2023 EW Season Preview Series
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Audio intro: Yo La Tengo, “Shades of Blue”Audio interstitial: The Joy Formidable, “Into the Blue”Audio outro: Don Gibson, “Blue, Blue Day”Link to tall-catchers EW episodeLink to Sam’s SubstackLink to first Ohtani dingerLink to longer dinger videoLink to second Ohtani dingerLink to side view of first swingLink to side-by-side swingsLink to Japan News on homersLink to MLB.com on the homerLink to 2022 pepper-grinder storyLink to Nootbaar WBC storyLink to other Nootbaar storyLink to Ohtani’s tight t-shirtLink to “Shoebae” accountLink to FanGraphs playoff oddsLink to FG payroll breakdownLink to Blue Jays offseason trackerLink to Blue Jays depth chartLink to Kaitlyn’s spring previewLink to Kaitlyn on the OF dimensionsLink to Travis on the OF dimensionsLink to Statcast park factorsLink to Kaitlyn’s author archiveLink to Royals offseason trackerLink to Royals depth chartLink to 2022 rookie PA by teamLink to profile of QuatraroLink to story on throwing strikesLink to Anne on “Raid the Zone”Link to Anne on Royals pitchersLink to story on KC ballpark sitesLink to 1977 article sourceLink to Five Seasons on GoodreadsLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to Ryan Nelson’s TwitterLink to Ward on pitch-callingLink to Richard Hershberger’s book Sponsor Us on Patreon 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