Effectively Wild Episode 1987: The 2023 Preseason Predictions Game

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Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs authors Michael Baumann and Ben Clemens play “SEC Baseball Player vs. Figure Involved in the Lincoln Assassination,” banter about two umpire faux pas (3:45) and MLB’s tweaks to replay reviewing (9:45), and then (17:32) each make 10 predictions about baseball in 2023 to be voted on by listeners, followed (1:40:16) by two Past Blasts from 1987.

Audio intro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: The Baseball Project, “All Future and No Past

Link to listener voting form
Link to Realmuto ejection
Link to AP on Realmuto
Link to Romo outing
Link to Stark on replay reviews
Link to story on Zoom replay reviews
Link to Dave Cameron on slide reviews
Link to Cameron on transfers
Link to Vogelbach/Showalter spot
Link to Clay Davenport on SBs
Link to FanGraphs playoff odds
Link to “Gay Bar”by Electric Six
Link to Rob Arthur on bat cracks
Link to Rob on bat cracks again
Link to MLBTR on Giménez’s extension
Link to 2022 Rockies deadline story
Link to Acuña 50-50 story
Link to Stark on the pie slice
Link to Bloomberg on match-fixing
Link to more on match-fixing
Link to snooker match-fixing story
Link to tennis match-fixing story
Link to Past Blast piece on brawls
Link to Pont Past Blast source
Link to more on Pont
Link to Pont’s wiki
Link to Pont’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Chris Hanel’s Twitter
Link to Chris Hanel’s website
Another link to listener voting form

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diegodias
11 months ago

for anyone voting: Jeter’s ROY year average between bWAR and fWAR was 2.75 – meaning Volpe would need at least 2.8 average WAR for the prediction to come true.