Effectively Wild Episode 1832: 2022 Division Preview Series: AL East

April 5, 2022

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about top prospects making Opening Day rosters, the Padres’ Sean Manaea trade and Eric Hosmer almost-trade, the A’s firesale and accurate and inaccurate payroll figures, Joe Davis replacing Joe Buck in the World Series broadcast booth, new broadcaster Carlos Beltrán’s comments about the Astros’ sign stealing, and Wilmer Font’s attempt at the first KBO perfect game, plus a Stat Blast (25:36) about Zack Collins, Reese McGuire, and one-for-one trades of same-aged players at the same position, then (35:43) bring on The Ringer’s Zach Kram and Bobby Wagner to preview the 2022 season in the American League East, team by team (followed by a few updates and postscripts).

Audio intro: The Society of Rockets, “Just Like You”
Audio interstitial: Filthy Friends, “One Flew East”
Audio outro: Frankie Cosmos, “Sinister”

Link to Rodríguez callup video
Link to Dan Szymborski on the Manaea trade
Link to MLBTR on the Hosmer non-trade
Link to Baseball America on Padres trades
Link to RosterResource payroll page
Link to Joe Davis news
Link to article about Beltrán comments
Link to Ben Clemens on the catchers trade
Link to Stat Blast trades data
Link to article about 1985 trade
Link to 30-30 Vlad quote
Link to story about Blue Jays and vaccines
Link to story about Romano’s injury
Link to story about the Queen’s dorgis
Link to Zeus’s “OK Blue Jays”
Link to 30-30 Hicks story
Link to Beltrán comments about Judge
Link to story about NYC’s vaccine mandate
Link to Yankees baserunning story
Link to Baseball America on Rays affiliates
Link to Red Sox Whitlock story
Link to Orioles fence news
Link to Orioles fence analysis
Link to story on O’s pitches and the fence
Link to story about minor league housing
Link to tweet about Orioles housing
Link to Tipping Pitches podcast
Link to Ben on Britton in 2016
Link to study on “sinister right-handers”
Link to story about “sinister” study
Link to handedness proportions data
Link to FanGraphs playoff odds