Effectively Wild Episode 2209: The Catcher Bug Catcher

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Derek Jeter‘s (and Aaron Judge’s) championship-or-bust rhetoric, Alex Rodriguez’s date night, Judge’s home-run robberies, Judge’s offensive prowess compared to Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds, how clutchness (or the lack thereof) could affect the AL MVP race, Juan Soto’s defense, how the trajectory of Seattle’s season may have sealed Scott Servais’s fate, the Royals’ valuable durability, Michael Kopech as a Dodger, Dallas Keuchel’s latest destination, the new, old Jacob deGrom, and Jordan Montgomery’s and Blake Snell’s contrasting takes on Scott Boras. Then (1:14:39) they bring back Sports Reference software developer (and primary developer of Baseball-Reference.com) Kenny Jackelen to describe the work that went into ensuring that Danny Jansen’s unique two-teams-in-one-game performance diddn’t break B-Ref.

Audio intro: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Jeter quote
Link to 2019 Judge quote
Link to 2023 Judge quote
Link to 2023 Judge quote 2
Link to story on 2009 reunion
Link to duck tour incidents
Link to A-Rod date night 1
Link to A-Rod date night 2
Link to Babe Ruth Award wiki
Link to FG batting paces
Link to FG WAR leaderboard
Link to single-season wRC+ leaders
Link to single-season batting leaders
Link to hitting leaders since 5/1
Link to SIS Judge stat
Link to Judge robbery article
Link to “locked in” quote
Link to “locked in” quote 2
Link to Judge’s splits
Link to Tango on Judge’s clutchness
Link to FG Clutch leaderboard
Link to batting WPA leaders
Link to pitching WPA leaders
Link to batting cWPA leaders
Link to pitching cWPA leaders
Link to spring Soto play
Link to EW on Soto’s play
Link to Bradley/Soto article
Link to Soto’s defensive history
Link to Ben on Harper’s defense
Link to Selig Rule article
Link to Wilson wiki
Link to Sheehan on the Royals
Link to BP IL Ledger
Link to 2024 team batting age
Link to Jaffe on Kopech
Link to Sox Machine on Kopech
Link to Keuchel signing article
Link to Carmen Sandiego theme song
Link to deGrom rehab article 1
Link to deGrom rehab article 2
Link to deGrom rehab article 3
Link to Montgomery comments
Link to Snell comments
Link to MLBTR on Montgomery/Snell
Link to MLBTR on Montgomery’s agent
Link to Jaffe on the Boras Four
Link to @mattomic tweet
Link to Kenny’s first EW appearance
Link to Cora on Jansen
Link to B-Ref game page
Link to Jansen game log
Link to Forman tweet
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form

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