Effectively Wild Episode 1953: The Weakest Links Left

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter a few Roger Angell-identified manner through which baseball is completely different from different sports activities, talk about the Mariners signing AJ Pollock and the Phillies buying and selling for Gregory Soto, and reply to the Dodgers reducing ties with Trevor Bauer, MLB reinstating former Braves GM John Coppolella, and KBO ace An Woo-jin not being rostered on South Korea’s WBC squad, plus musings on the aggressive benefit of stopping leaks and a Previous Blast from 1953. Then (42:42) they discuss to FanGraphs senior author and ZiPS creator Dan Szymborski concerning the weakest projected positions on contending groups, together with detours into Shohei Ohtani’s WAR projection, whether or not salaries for beginning pitchers have declined together with innings totals, the linear relationship between {dollars} and WAR, the deflation of center-field offense, the tempo of free-agent signings, whether or not AI would be the downfall of humanity, and extra, adopted by a postscript with a number of notes and updates.

Audio intro: Trampled By Turtles, “A Lifetime to Find”
Audio interstitial: Margo Worth, “That’s How Rumors Get Started”
Audio outro: Jason Isbell, “If it Takes a Lifetime”

Link to Angell’s “On the Ball”
Link to MLBTR on Pollock
Link to Longenhagen on Soto
Link to Sands photo
Link to Dipoto on M’s spending
Link to Rosenthal on Bauer
Link to Nightengale on Bauer
Link to MLBTR on Coppolella
Link to An Woo-Jin article
Link to more on An Woo-Jin
Link to more on KBO bullying
Link to An Woo-Jin scouting report
Link to article on volleyball bullying
Link to Nightengale on the Braves
Link to 1953 story source
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to article on Rose’s bet
Link to zombie runner coinage
Link to Ben C. on FA movement
Link to Ben’s FA retrospective
Link to Dan’s ZiPS pieces
Link to FG depth charts
Link to best remaining FA
Link to Dodgers payroll post
Link to Rob on pitchers/payroll
Link to Dan on paying for wins
Link to Rob on CF offense
Link to Posnanski on chess bots
Link to Dan’s Gronk tweets
Link to Dan’s weapons tweet
Link to chatbots EW episode
Link to MLBTR on Hendriks
Link to MLB.com on Hendriks
Link to All-CarShield team
Link to EW on CarShield sponsors
Link to Andújar trade request
Link to tennis baseball video
Link to Colbert/Musial story