Show notes
After a podcast preface by Ben Lindbergh about Mike Trout’s knee injury (sigh), Ben and Meg Rowley banter (4:19) about a weekend White Sox sweep, the overdue news that Nike is supposedly fixing the much-maligned MLB uniforms, follow-ups about rule rollbacks, ballplayer dirt ingestion, the “group Maddux,” and promotion/relegation, and the Twins’ summer sausage. Then (50:37) they talk to FanGraphs’ Ben Clemens about when it’s safe to evaluate changes in player performance and which hitters and pitchers have changed his mind the most (either positively or negatively) so far this season, plus a postscript (1:45:05).Audio intro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio interstitial: Ted Berg, “Small Sample Size Song”Audio outro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”Link to MLBTR on Trout’s kneeLink to BP Recovery DashboardLink to Trout baby announcementLink to Trout hypotheticalsLink to Trout videoLink to uniform memo reportLink to The Athletic on unisLink to Greene pants tearLink to Drellich on MLBPA/FanaticsLink to Ben on pitcher limitsLink to group Maddux responseLink to summer sausage wikiLink to AP on the sausageLink to Athletic on the sausageLink to EW guest leaderboardLink to signature significance infoLink to batted-ball predictiveness infoLink to Russell on hitter statsLink to Russell on pitcher statsLink to Carty on hitter statsLink to Carty on pitcher statsLink to Dolinar on sample sizeLink to Russell on stability 1Link to Russell on stability 2Link to Ben C.’s riser picksLink to Ben C.’s faller picksLink to Orr on AbramsLink to Ringer preseason predictionsLink to FG preseason top 100Link to Clemens on LittellLink to Clemens on MusgroveLink to FG on RealmutoLink to Tango on RealmutoLink to Flaherty strikeouts storyLink to outfielder box articleLink to ballpark meetup formsLink to meetup organizer form 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