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Effectively Wild Episode 475: What Baseball Could Borrow from Soccer’s Structure

Ben and Sam talk to Will Woods about soccer conventions that might improve baseball.


Effectively Wild Episode 474: The Rest-of-Season Projections Test

Ben and Sam identify the players who’ve most overperformed or underperformed their PECOTAs and discuss what they’ll do next.


Effectively Wild Episode 473: Never Stop Asking Questions

Ben and Sam answer listener email questions about players who take pitches, catcher defense, spotting terrible teams a run, tool grades, and more.


Effectively Wild Episode 472: The Greatness of Gwynn

Ben and Sam talk about the legacy of the late, great, Tony Gwynn.


Effectively Wild Episode 471: The All-MLB.TV Team

Ben and Sam discuss the players they drop everything to watch on MLB.TV.


Effectively Wild Episode 470: The Unprecedented Parity of 2014

Ben and Sam discuss the significance of the large number of teams still in contention.


Effectively Wild Episode 469: Preserving Sabermetrics for Posterity

Ben and Sam talk to Matt Dennewitz about his efforts to archive sabermetric research.


Effectively Wild Episode 468: Questions of a Questionable Nature

Ben and Sam banter about unpredictability, then answer listener emails about Google Glass, split seasons, time travel, Austin Hedges, and more.


Effectively Wild Episode 467: What’s Next for the Tampa Bay Rays?

Ben and Sam discuss whether the Rays are doomed if they don’t deal at the deadline.


Effectively Wild Episode 466: The Battle for Bay Area Supremacy

Ben and Sam discuss the weekend’s unwritten rule violations, then talk about the teams with the best records in baseball, the A’s and Giants.