Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the podcast’s semi-official new nickname for Yandy Díaz, what Mookie Betts playing shortstop says about the Dodgers, and Andrew McCutchen’s hot start, then (15:29) answer emails about the Reds’ many mascots, why we stop at “Quadruple-A,” how good today’s 26th men would be if they traveled back in time, sticky stuff on a tacky ball, and whether MLB would ever privatize publicly accessible Statcast data, followed (47:48) by a Stat Blast about Ross Stripling and the ultimate swingmen, the longest identical sequences of team wins and losses, and whether working the count to get pitchers out of games is still all it’s cracked up to be, plus a recap (1:23:03) of the first time the A’s played MLB games in Las Vegas and a Past Blast (1:30:27) from 1997.Audio intro: Benny and the Jeffs, “Effectively Wild”Audio outro: Jacket Thor, “My Patron Saint”Link to FG post on MookieLink to Mookie’s play at shortLink to Eric Stephen on MookieLink to Smyly/Gomes playLink to MLB mascots wikiLink to Reds mascots pageLink to Ben on Triple-A strengthLink to Clay D. on league strengthLink to Ben on caliber of playLink to MLBTR on pre-tacked ballsLink to Topps NOW cardsLink to Seinfeld clipLink to Stripling on EWLink to MLBTR on StriplingLink to Slusser tweet about StriplingLink to swingmen GS/GR ratioLink to Ryan Nelson on TwitterLink to travelling salesman problemLink to Graham’s tweetLink to Turner’s quotesLink to Tango on 3-2 countsLink to article on pitch counts/TTOPLink to WP when SP doesn’t go 5Link to 2018 opener articleLink to 1996 articles on A’s in VegasLink to Cashman Field wikiLink to 1997 Past Blast sourceLink to NYT on radical realignmentLink to Tribune on radical realignmentLink to Grant on radical realignmentLink to B-Ref on radical realignmentLink to Hendriks announcement 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