Effectively Wild Episode 2083: Analytics Retentive

November 8, 2023

EWFI
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s experience covering the GM meetings and broadcasting an AFL game, with an emphasis on Brian Cashman’s testy exchanges with reporters, Meg’s interaction with Jerry Dipoto, and Scott Boras’s wordplay, plus listener emails (1:01:04) about “electing” free agency, whether the pitch clock has lowered the average age of baseball spectators, when fans started wearing sports jerseys, and possible successors to Baseball Twitter.

Audio intro: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Pedantic Version)”
Audio outro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Cashman quotes
Link to Drellich on Cashman
Link to article on Yankees analytics
Link to Cashman analytics answer
Link to Judge quote
Link to tweet about Getz
Link to Getz quotes
Link to EW Boras episode
Link to Boras backdrop photo
Link to other Boras backdrop photo
Link to Boras FAA quote
Link to thread of Boras quotes
Link to Boras Trump quote
Link to Boras Alonso quote
Link to Boras Bellinger video
Link to story about average age
Link to story about jerseys
Link to Baseball Twitter draft
Link to EW emails database