Effectively Wild Episode 1993: Break(out) the Cycle

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the hot start by Jarred Kelenic and when to believe in a breakout, Jo Adell and the mystery of quadruple-A players, the odds of no Marlin hitting for the cycle until Luis Arraez did it this week, the Rays’ record-tying 13th straight win, new reports about new rules, and more. Then (51:12) they answer listener emails about the best urban, non-ballpark setting for baseball, the MLB player they would most want to be stranded with on a desert island (with a digression on Matt Strahm and ballpark beer sales), a pitcher with one unhittable pitch per game, and a black-box outfield, plus a Past Blast (1:26:19) from 1993.

Audio intro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Chicano Batman, “Cycles of Existential Rhyme”

Link to Kelenic homer
Link to Passan tweet
Link to article on Kelenic’s swing
Link to Verducci on Kelenic
Link to article on Adell
Link to Arraez cycle video
Link to cycles since 1993
Link to team cycles since ’93
Link to one-team cycle odds
Link to league-wide cycle odds
Link to Rays streak stats
Link to Springs injury story
Link to Rays rally
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to Baumann on Lodolo
Link to FG violations report
Link to new B-Ref rules report
Link to aircraft-carrier diagram
Link to aircraft-carrier derbies
Link to Mikolas lizard story
Link to AP story on beer sales
Link to Astros beer news
Link to Strahm comments
Link to Manfred on concessions
Link to BA on concessions
Link to Crain’s on concessions
Link to Strahm’s YouTube channel
Link to EW emails database
Link to 1993 Past Blast source
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack

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