After a brief preamble about the betting scandal surrounding Shohei Ohtani and interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the first game of the regular season, whether gloves have gotten more permeable, the odds of a DH-only Ohtani MVP season, Ohtani’s lucrative endorsements, whether the addition of in-app gambling info to NBA League Pass portends a similar future for MLB.TV, the pitfalls of pervasive sports-betting ads, the implications of Eury Pérez’s elbow injury, the chances that Pérez will win multiple Cy Young awards, and the decimated Marlins rotation. Then (34:39) they answer listener emails about what makes pitchers aesthetically pleasing, whether Blake Snell is effectively wild, whether coaches spend more time on stars or scrubs, moving the bullpen beneath the mound, whether MLB has too many multi-team markets, and joint broadcast booths, plus Stat Blasts (1:12:04) on the Dodgers’ daunting top of the order and the Padres’ profusion of shortstops, followed by (1:37:49) a real-time reaction to the Ohtani-Mizuhara news and a postscript with additional details and thoughts.
Audio intro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to shortstop PPRLink to Gromit GIFLink to Cronenworth playLink to opener box scoreLink to Duffy glove failLink to Vlad glove failLink to Ohtani MVP oddsLink to DH MVP articleLink to NL WAR projectionsLink to 2023 AL WAR leadersLink to endorsement leadersLink to MLBTR on EuryLink to Baumann on Marlins SPLink to article on SixtoLink to Cy Youngs quoteLink to non-Cy winnersLink to Stuff+ rankingLink to League Pass articleLink to Manfred-Silver storyLink to Hefner articleLink to moving mound EW episodeLink to two-team cities wikiLink to MLB Sunday Leadoff wikiLink to MASN booth articleLink to Sterling-Castiglione swapLink to 1953 Scully storyLink to listener emails databaseLink to Cory Brent’s Stat Blast coverLink to Ben’s Dodgers-Padres articleLink to highest leadoff OPSLink to leadoff power articleLink to Stat Blast sheet 1Link to Stat Blast image 1Link to Stat Blast image 2Link to Ryan Nelson’s TwitterLink to Cooper on the PadresLink to Stat Blast sheet 2Link to Kenny Jackelen’s TwitterLink to Ron Swanson clipLink to Shohei couples photoLink to L.A. Times Ohtani reportLink to ESPN Ohtani reportLink to The Athletic Ohtani reportLink to Jaguars storyLink to ballpark meetup formsLink to meetup organizer form
Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: [email protected]
Podcast (effectively-wild): Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: