Effectively Wild Episode 1838: Walk and Balk

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Angels manager Joe Maddon’s befuddling bases-loaded intentional walk to Corey Seager, NPB phenom Roki Sasaki’s perfect followup to his perfect game, Hunter Greene and velo-induced fear for young starters, injury close calls for Byron Buxton and Mike Trout, the rise of non-fastballs leaguewide and what Andrew Heaney’s sweeper-iffic success says about player development, more stringent pitch clocks reducing game times in the minors, unvaccinated players not making trips to Toronto, Ichiro Suzuki’s speedy ceremonial first pitch, a feral-cat infestation in Oakland, rebounds in MLB’s average salary and per-game attendance, and a reduction in home-run rate and speculation about the behavior of the ball, plus followups about beef boys, replay review signals in Japan, a rules loophole exploited by Jackie Robinson and his contemporaries, and a way to calculate the most expected no-hitters subtracted.

Audio intro: Ben Kweller, “Make it Up”
Audio outro: Marshall Crenshaw, “(We’re Gonna) Shake Up Their Minds”

Link to The Athletic on Maddon’s IBB
Link to the AP on Maddon’s IBB
Link to Nathan Fielder tweet
Link to list of bases-loaded IBB
Link to info on previous bases-loaded IBBs
Link to 2015 Maddon zoo-animals story
Link to images of Maddon’s zoo animals
Link to Ben Clemens on Maddon’s IBB
Link to Ben on Maddon’s IBB again
Link to confused Trout clip
Link to Slate story on Sasaki
Link to Ben on Sasaki on Hang Up and Listen
Link to Sponichi poll about Sasaki
Link to story on Greene’s velo record
Link to video of Buxton injury
Link to video of Trout HBP
Link to BIS MLB pitch types by year
Link to Pitch Info MLB velocity by year
Link to “sweeper” leaderboard
Link to Jay Jaffe on Heaney
Link to Fabian Ardaya on Heaney
Link to Michael Ajeto on Heaney
Link to Eno Sarris on the sweeper
Link to Lindsey Adler on the whirly
Link to before-and-after Heaney videos
Link to Lucas Apostoleris tweet about sweepers
Link to Baseball America on the new pitch clock
Link to Joe Posnanski on the new pitch clock
Link to Jeff Passan on the new pitch clock
Link to Darwinzon Hernandez video
Link to Ben and Rob on pitch-clock exposure
Link to article about Oakland’s COVID outbreak
Link to story about unvaccinated Red Sox
Link to article about Story’s vaccination
Link to Ichiro video (and inaccurate velo)
Link to accurate Ichiro velo
Link to Ben on Ichiro’s power
Link to Oakland ballpark-cats story
Link to MLB average salary news
Link to yearly MLB attendance figures
Link to “pent-up demand” EW episode
Link to Rotowire story about power outage
Link to Jim Albert on balls flying less far
Link to Joe Sheehan on the new ball’s behavior
Link to Derek Carty tweet about HR rates
Link to tweet about humidor and HR rates
Link to Jeremy Frank tweet
Link to story about Angels remote broadcasts
Link to “ground beef” tweet
Link to NPB replay review signal video
Link to EW Stanky draft episode
Link to story about Robinson and rules
Link to other story about Robinson and rules
Link to Don Hoak Wiki
Link to “Kris Bryant rule” story
Link to data on new no-hitters stat

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