Archive for Effectively Wild

Effectively Wild Episode 25: The Secretly Successful White Sox System?/Starlin Castro’s Makeup Concerns

Ben and Sam discuss Kenny Williams’ contention that the poorly rated White Sox farm system is just misunderstood, then consider whether the Cubs should be concerned about Starlin Castro’s makeup.


Effectively Wild Episode 24: The Rays Are Rolling/Assessing the Angels’ Strange Season

The Rays demolished the Angels in a four-game weekend sweep, which gives Ben and Sam the idea to discuss the two teams’ divergent directions since the deadline and reevaluate Anaheim’s offseason approach.


Effectively Wild Episode 23: Benching Bryce Harper/Why We Were Wrong About the White Sox

Ben and Sam discuss the possibility that the Nationals might enter the playoffs without either Bryce Harper or Stephen Strasburg, then talk about how the White Sox have defied injuries yet again and proved the pre-season predictions wrong.


Effectively Wild Episode 22: Why BP Didn’t Break the Melky Cabrera Suspension

Ben and Sam discuss how they came to know that Melky Cabrera was about to be suspended for a positive PED test before the news broke, and how they decided what to do about it.


Effectively Wild Episode 21: Typewriter

Ben and Sam reach a milestone (the 20-minute mark) as they tackle the topics of clubhouse chemistry and whether there’s more to Jeff Mathis than meets the eye.


Effectively Wild Episode 20: Elephant

Ben and Sam discuss the significance of a potential big-league promotion for Jurickson Profar and investigate the link between Johan Santana’s no-hitter and his subsequent struggles.


Effectively Wild Episode 19: Scraping Ice

Ben and Sam discuss the impact of CC Sabathia’s elbow soreness on the Yankees’ short- and long-term outlooks, and the difference between winning a division and winning a wild card under the new playoff format.


Effectively Wild Episode 18: Popcorn Popping

Ben and Sam discuss two players exceeding all expectations in 2012: R.A. Dickey and Eric Chavez.


Effectively Wild Episode 17: Manny Comin’

Ben and Sam discuss Manny Machado’s surprising promotion to the majors and Roy Oswalt’s tumultuous transition to the bullpen.


Effectively Wild Episode 16: Sonar

Ben and Sam discuss the significance of Mike Trout’s 21st birthday and Mets manager Terry Collin’s comments about injured reliever Tim Byrdak’s workload.