Effectively Wild Episode 2164: The Batcast Era

May 15, 2024

EWFI
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the “effectively wild” debut of Paul Skenes and the Pirates’ bases-loaded walkathon, an in-development TV series about Ippei Mizuhara, the demotion of Craig Kimbrel and possible trade dangling of Mason Miller, the continued success of Davis Schneider, the impact of replay review on the increase in catcher’s interference calls, and whether teams should go back to rearranging their rotations based on opponent quality, then (39:14) bring on Mike Petriello of MLB.com to explain and discuss the present and future of MLB’s new Statcast-based bat-tracking metrics, plus (1:27:51) a few follow-ups.

Audio intro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Grandal interview
Link to Skenes gamer
Link to Skenes game box score
Link to 1959 game box score
Link to Ippei show story
Link to Uncut Gems wiki
Link to Kimbrel story 1
Link to Kimbrel story 2
Link to Sheehan on Kimbrel
Link to Rosenthal on Miller
Link to Schneider Reddit post
Link to Schneider article
Link to SIS on CI calls
Link to Craig Wright on SP opponents
Link to EW Episode 812
Link to Darius Austin on SP opponents
Link to Matt Berry saying “bat”
Link to Mike on EW in 2022
Link to Mike on new metrics
Link to bat-tracking leaderboard
Link to fastest bats
Link to team leaders
Link to Contreras story
Link to Yankees slugger stats
Link to Ohtani bat stats
Link to Passan on bat stats
Link to Eno on bat stats
Link to Matan on bat stats
Link to Ben C. on bat stats
Link to Ben C. on bat stats 2
Link to Ben on second-guessing
Link to Tango on switch-hitters
Link to Tango on predictiveness
Link to Paine on bat stats
Link to Woodward on bat stats
Link to Russell on shortening up
Link to Dril tweet
Link to KK play story
Link to EW on the KK play
Link to new fake-out catch
Link to Ryan Nelson tweet 1
Link to Ryan Nelson tweet 2
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form