Archive for Effectively Wild

Effectively Wild Episode 272: Picking Each Team’s Perceived Clubhouse Leader/Delmon Young and Players with Moral Warts

Ben and Sam pick a perceived clubhouse leader for each team, then talk about whether teams should ever refuse to sign certain players on moral grounds.


Effectively Wild Episode 271: Disciplining Puig/Trade Deadline Do-Overs/Mistaken Sabermetric Assumptions

Ben, Sam, and guest co-host Russell Carleton discuss whether and how the Dodgers should discipline Yasiel Puig, teams that would want to take mulligans on their trade deadlines, and things sabermetricians are still getting wrong.


Effectively Wild Episode 270: Listener Email Answers in Search of a Theme

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about when every team will have won a World Series, the best baseball Kickstarters, rooting for draft picks, one-pitch pitchers, and more.


Effectively Wild Episode 269: Revisiting the Jose Fernandez Call-Up/Handicapping Cano’s Suitors

Ben and Sam reevaluate whether the Marlins’ early promotion of Jose Fernandez made sense, then talk about where Robinson Cano will end up.


Effectively Wild Episode 268: Clayton Kershaw and Cooperstown/Xander Bogaerts and Historic Years for Young Talent

Ben and Sam banter about the Saber Seminar, then discuss Clayton Kershaw’s odds of induction into the Hall and the best-ever years for young players.


Effectively Wild Episode 267: Why We’re Happy About Expanded Replay Review

Ben and Sam (mostly) celebrate the impending arrival of a new replay review system.


Effectively Wild Episode 266: How the A’s Were Built/Why the Dodgers Are Winning

Ben and Sam talk about how the A’s are winning in an unusual way for a small-market team, then discuss why the Dodgers have been the exception to the trend of money not leading to wins.


Effectively Wild Episode 265: Answers to Your Burning Baseball Questions

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about baseball with clockwise bases, whether in-game managerial moves help or hurt, who pays players who get released, and more.


Effectively Wild Episode 264: Four Questions About Miguel Cabrera/World Series Odds Update

Ben, Sam, and guest Zachary Levine mull over four questions about Miguel Cabrera, then talk about the World Series odds of the Tigers and other teams.


Effectively Wild Episode 263: Jose Dariel Abreu and the Future of Cuban Baseball/The Unmade Wil Myers Trade

Ben and Sam discuss the next potential star from Cuba and the future of Cuban baseball, then revisit a trade for Wil Myers that didn’t happen.