Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about norovirus derailing the GM meetings, leftover Boras quotes, and the baseball players deemed sexiest by People magazine, Stat Blast (18:47) about a possible bunting comeback and whether age is correlated with pitch-clock violations, and then (43:39) talk to FanGraphs writer Ben Clemens about the free-agent market and his ranking of the top 50 free agents.Audio intro: Josh Busman, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”Link to Apstein reportLink to Passan typoLink to Park videoLink to Boras on CohenLink to Yogi Aflac adLink to Boras on BostonLink to Baumann’s predictionsLink to People on DempseyLink to People on athletesLink to People on reader pollLink to Ohtani’s gloves postLink to Hal on Boone’s buntsLink to Thames quoteLink to Dipoto’s commentsLink to Petriello tweetLink to Orr tweetLink to playoff bunt hitsLink to playoff sacrificesLink to regular-season buntsLink to bunting wRC+Link to non-pitcher bunting wRC+Link to pre-extras, non-pitcher wRC+Link to Rob Mains on buntingLink to Tango thread about buntingLink to sac/non-sac dataLink to Lucas Apostoleris on TwitterLink to Episode 2051 wikiLink to Epstein quoteLink to Topps NowLink to Players Choice awardsLink to violations questionLink to violations leaderboardLink to Episode 1991 wikiLink to team violation correlationsLink to player violation correlationsLink to Rob on age and paceLink to Moneyball clipLink to handwashing PSALink to top 50 FA rankingLink to top 50 FA chatLink to Sam on Ohtani and RuthLink to article about BenettiLink to article on Harper and 1B 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