Effectively Wild Episode 1768: The Braves Blueprint by Ben Lindbergh November 5, 2021 Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s return from podcast paternity leave, the quality of the 2021 postseason, whether the Braves were underrated or simply overperformed, what teams might learn from and emulate about Atlanta’s success, postseason pitcher usage and game length, the career and retirement of Buster Posey, their upcoming discussion of TV drama Stove League, and more. Audio intro: Pavement, "Father to a Sister of Thought" Audio outro: Bill Withers, "Wintertime" Link to NL East playoff odds graph Link to FanGraphs postseason staff predictions Link to Mark Armour on parity Link to Paul Hembekides on game ending times Link to Theo Epstein on emulating champions Link to Zach Kram on Atlanta’s win Link to Michael Baumann on the Astros’ future Link to Ben on Atlanta’s rebuild Link to Zach on Atlanta’s bullpen Link to Eno Sarris on learning from Atlanta Link to Emma Baccellieri on Atlanta’s shifting Link to Jay on playoff pitcher usage Link to Jay on unlikely playoff pitchers Link to Ben on bullpenning Link to Ben on October baseball Link to Ben on predicting postseason sweeps Link to Maury Brown on playoff start times Link to John Ourand on start times and ratings Link to Ben on re-signing World Series winners Link to Rob Mains on pitcher usage and payroll Link to Terrance Gore EW episode Link to Jay Jaffe on Posey Link to Grant Brisbee on Posey Link to Nichols Law of Catcher Defense Link to Stove League teaser video Link to stream Stove League via Kocowa Link to stream Stove League via Viki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Effectively Wild Wiki Twitter Account Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com https://media.blubrry.com/effectively_wild/cdn-podcasts.fangraphs.com/EffectivelyWildEpisode1768a.mp3Podcast (effectively-wild): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS