Effectively Wild Episode 2077: Now I’ve Seen Everything

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October 27, 2023

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the end of the NLCS, discuss the discourse surrounding the improbability of and fallout from the Diamondbacks-Rangers World Series matchup, banter about the Brewers always losing in the playoffs to eventual pennant winners, preview the World Series, postulate a conspiracy surrounding this postseason’s lack of extra-inning games, and react to the Red Sox hiring ex-pitcher Craig Breslow as their new Chief Baseball Officer/POBO, then (54:14) Stat Blast about how the World Series and future postseasons might be swayed by a reliever familiarity effect that could counter the pitcher-usage changes caused by the times-through-the-order penalty and restore longer starts, including a chat (1:12:06) with reliever-familiarity-effect researcher Dr. David J. Gordon.

Audio intro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Baumann on NLCS G7
Link to Ben C.’s Series preview
Link to Ginny Searle’s Series preview
Link to Neil Paine’s Series preview
Link to MLB.com on Ginkel
Link to Jay Jaffe on Scherzer
Link to Leo Morgenstern on Semien
Link to tweet about Brewers losses
Link to MLBTR on Breslow
Link to 2017 Breslow article
Link to info on Eovaldi game
Link to Topps Now
Link to Cameron Grove EW episode
Link to Cameron Grove tweet
Link to Cameron Grove study
Link to David Gordon study
Link to Ben’s SP study
Link to Ben on reliever familiarity
Link to D-backs headlines wiki

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