Effectively Wild Episode 2487: A Time to Canseco and a Time to Leap
6/4/20261 hr 50 min
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the duality of Jo Adell’s defense (after the FARTBAT low that followed his triple-robbery high), Spencer Arrighetti and MLB’s monthly player honors as the last bastion of old-school-stat-based awards, whether a team with a losing record could make the playoffs this season, Paul Goldschmidt’s pleasing platoon role, how much credit the Brewers deserve for Kyle Harrison’s success, Louis Varland’s value, the Tigers’ rapid plummet out of contention, the twilights of Nick Castellanos’s and Andrew McCutchen’s careers, and (1:15:01) whether the CBA negotiations merit horse race-style coverage.
Audio intro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme 2”
Link to Adell’s FARTBAT
Link to Adell quote
Link to Adell’s three robberies
Link to dramatic robbery photo
Link to EW robbery discussion
Link to Adell’s 2020 FARTBAT
Link to Canseco FARTBAT
Link to May’s Pitchers of the Month
Link to Pereda nut shot
Link to Pennywise quote
Link to Desk Set wiki
Link to Player of the Month Award wiki
Link to past PotM winners
Link to THT article on the award
Link to pitcher WAR leaders in May
Link to Sportico on the unbalanced leagues
Link to MLB.com on the lower October bar
Link to Jay on the Tigers
Link to Skubal rehab update
Link to Rosenthal on Skubal
Link to lowest-win playoff teams
Link to Curt on Harrison
Link to Location+ leaders
Link to Brewers WAR leaders
Link to reliever WAR leaders
Link to four-seamer velo leaders
Link to MLBTR on McCutchen
Link to MLBTR on Castellanos
Link to Clemens on the opening offers
Link to Drellich on Meyer/Caplin quotes
Link to Drellich on Manfred quotes
Link to The Athletic on open books
Link to story on Sánchez’s streak
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Ben Lindbergh· Host0:10
[upbeat music] Hello and welcome to episode 2487 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from FanGraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, joined by Meg Rowley of FanGraphs. Hello, Meg.
Meg Rowley· Host0:27
Hello.
Ben Lindbergh· Host0:28
Well, we must discuss the duality of Adell.
Meg Rowley· Host0:32
Hmm.
Ben Lindbergh· Host0:33
The a-duality. [laughs] Joe Adell, who earlier this year had one of the greatest successions of defensive highlights that- Mm-hmm ... has ever been seen. Three robbed home runs in the same game. That's about as good as you can be on defense. We did a whole discussion about what that was worth, how valuable was it, and we concluded that regardless of how you slice and dice the stats to determine what it was worth, it was super cool.
Meg Rowley· Host1:03
Yeah.
Ben Lindbergh· Host1:03
And everyone knew that just from watching it and- Yeah ... seeing the highlights and seeing the photo that was taken of him. Robbed three dingers in a single game.
Meg Rowley· Host1:11
Yeah.
Ben Lindbergh· Host1:11
Amazing.
Meg Rowley· Host1:12
Yeah.
Ben Lindbergh· Host1:12
We did discuss at the time that he was sort of an unlikely candidate to do it, because he's not an elite outfielder.
Meg Rowley· Host1:19
Right.
Ben Lindbergh· Host1:20
[laughs] He's, he's got some skills, he's got some tools, but on the whole, the defensive metrics don't love his work, and we saw [laughs] on