Effectively Wild Episode 2466: Turn Off the Tap?

About this episode

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss various baseball topics including player contracts, pitching statistics, and unique game occurrences.

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Kevin McGonigle’ s new contract and whether pre-arbitration extensions are still team-friendly, Tatsuya Imai ’s adjustment period, MLB’s average four-seam fastball velo nearing 95 mph, a new frontier in catcher’s interference calls, and whether a new challenge signal should replace the head/helmet tap, then (1:21:02) Stat Blast about a historic scoring day, games in which the score most often matched the inning, homering against all other teams while playing for one team (and the most homers without going deep twice against the same team), opposing pitchers catching pop-ups in the same game, driving in oneself and no one else, and season-starting streaks of games with a lead. Audio intro : Xavier LeBlanc, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Luke Lillard, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to MLBTR on McGonigle Link to Paine on extensions 1 Link to Paine on extensions 2 Link to Ball on extensions Link to Nightengale on extensions Link to Rome on Imai Link to Imai synopsis Link to Rome on interpreters Link to story on Duran incident Link to Statcast velo by year Link to Pitch Info…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Topics covered

• pre-arbitration extensions
• MLB fastball velocity
• catcher's interference
• historic scoring
• baseball statistics

Keywords

• Kevin McGonigle
• Tatsuya Imai
• MLB
• fastball velocity
• catcher's interference
• baseball statistics
• historic scoring

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MLB

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