Show notes
Ben Lindbergh addresses an interview upgrade on the preceding episode, chats with FanGraphs’ Dan Szymborski about Luis Arraez’s chances of batting .400, Stat Blasts (22:36) about extremes in team winning and losing streaks, welcomes in David Lewis (28:00) for the final Past Blast, and talks to prolific science fiction (and baseball science fiction) author Rick Wilber (44:48) about being the son of big leaguer Del Wilber, his career and love for baseball and sci-fi, and the podcast’s forthcoming Future Blast series, plus a postscript (1:26:00) about Tyler Wells and Taylor Walls, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, Rob Manfred and public ballpark funding, contentious plays at the plate, and a new walk-up-music database.Audio intro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”Link to Carleton interview episodeLink to MLB.com on ArraezLink to Dan on ArraezLink to Statcast park factorsLink to Foolish thread on AVG+Link to AVG+ leaderboardLink to story about Reds’ latest winLink to Reds streak fun factLink to Ryan Nelson on TwitterLink to longest in-season-streaks sheetLink to more streaks dataLink to Past Blast EW wiki pageLink to 2023 Past Blast sourceLink to Ben on the pitch clockLink to Ben on the pitch clock againLink to B-Ref’s new rules pageLink to Rickwood Field storyLink to Hinchliffe Stadium storyLink to first Dick Trueman episodeLink to second Dick Trueman episodeLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to Rick Wilber’s websiteLink to Wilber’s baseball worksLink to My Father’s GameLink to Del Wilber’s SABR bioLink to Lucky Starr wikiLink to Wade/Ward wikiLink to Trout/Betts interviewLink to Trout/Ohtani at-batLink to Bochy ejection videoLink to Melvin ejection videoLink to the NYT on plate-blockingLink to Heim’s replay-review gestureLink to Manfred’s Time interviewLink to scholars survey on fundingLink to story on the Astros commentLink to trade trees siteLink to trade values siteLink to thread on walk-up-songs siteLink to MLB walk-up-songs siteLink to The Walk-Up DatabaseLink to walk-up-site requests thread 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