Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball PodcastEffectively Wild Episode 2480: The Most Embarrassing Baseball PlayWould Firing Matter This Much?
3:27–5:27 · 120s
Ben presses Meg on whether the Phillies would still have gone 15–4 if they hadn’t fired Rob Thomson. Meg threads the needle: players may have felt urgency after the "performative" early firing, but most improvement is talent and health, not Mattingly magic.