Effectively Wild Episode 2320: Baseball Jobs (Dietician and Fun-Fact Finder)

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May 9, 2025

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Ben Lindbergh and Ben Clemens of FanGraphs banter about the latest positional drama regarding Rafael Devers, then discuss whether and why pitchers leaguewide are Yu Darvish-ing and Tyler Holton-ing—that is, throwing more pitch types, and varying their pitch types more based on batter handedness—before answering listener emails about home strike zones and combining bad teams to make a good team. Then (44:42) Ben continues the “baseball jobs” series by bringing on Adam Auer, major league dietician for the Brewers and former minor and major league strength and conditioning coach, to talk about how teams are improving player performance through nutrition, exercise, and recovery, followed (1:41:49) by Emory Brinkman, senior editor for Stats Perform, who discusses generating viral fun facts, parsing statistical qualifiers, and data-wrangling.

Audio intro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Pedantic)”
Audio interstitial 2: Philip Tapley and Michael Stokes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to WhatIfSports offer page

Link to MLBTR on Devers
Link to Ben on adaptation score
Link to adaptation score sequel
Link to BP on Holton
Link to BP on Brown
Link to Ben L. on Rays changeups
Link to 2008 SP pitch usage
Link to 2024 SP pitch usage
Link to Ben on the Orioyals
Link to Adam on LinkedIn
Link to MLB dietician origins
Link to Adam’s hiring
Link to Minasian comments
Link to Emory on LinkedIn
Link to Stats Perform
Link to Schneemann fact
Link to Alonso fact
Link to Carpenter fact
Link to Ohtani fact
Link to unremarkable day fact
Link to shutouts fact
Link to Ohtani fact 2
Link to BWJ fact
Link to Young graphic
Link to @OptaJoe
Link to deGrom post
Link to Pirates statement
Link to Freeland comments

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