Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Kenta Maeda pitching well despite PitchCom giving away his signs, spring training injuries (5:26), the upsides and downsides of pitchers beginning to call their own pitches with PitchCom (9:03), and the reasons why hitters collectively seem to swing more often than they should (20:18). Then they continue (and pass the halfway point of) their 2023 season preview series by discussing the Los Angeles Dodgers (40:01) with Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic, and the Chicago Cubs (1:19:32) with Sahadev Sharma of The Athletic, plus a Past Blast from 1976 (2:07:56). 2023 EW Season Preview Series
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Audio intro: Faye, “Swing State”Audio interstitial 1: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Requiem K. 626 – Lux Aeterna”Audio interstitial 2: Andy Fairweather Low, “Halfway to Everything”Audio outro: Lucy Dacus, “Triple Dog Dare”Link to ESPN on MaedaLink to Turner-Hernández videoLink to EW shart discussionLink to Rob Arthur on sign-stealingLink to article on training w/o gamesLink to Greinke calling own pitchesLink to Maddux calling own pitchesLink to old EW on calling own pitchesLink to Scherzer on PitchCom legalityLink to ESPN on pitchers calling pitchesLink to article on Padres pitch callsLink to article on Burnes pitch callsLink to article on Giants pitch callsLink to tweet about Ohtani pitch callsLink to article on Cole pitch callsLink to article on Severino pitch callsLink to video of Scherzer pitch callsLink to hitter run values on swingsLink to Tom Tango thread on swingsLink to Devan Fink on swingsLink to Eno Sarris on swingsLink to Swing decision Run ValueLink to Vargas not swingingLink to Tango on approaches by countLink to Tango on slidersLink to Tom Verducci on slidersLink to Rob on playing deeperLink to Rob on BABIP/defenseLink to Russell on OBP > BALink to FanGraphs playoff oddsLink to FG payroll breakdownLink to Dodgers offseason trackerLink to Dodgers depth chartLink to Ben Clemens on the DodgersLink to Fabian on SyndergaardLink to article on Heyward’s swingLink to Fabian’s spring previewLink to Dodgers first-round picksLink to Fabian’s author archiveLink to Cubs offseason trackerLink to Cubs depth chartLink to EW preview series wikiLink to 2019 Pitch Lab pieceLink to 2022 Pitch Lab pieceLink to Sahadev on HendricksLink to Sahadev on RickettsLink to Sahadev on BellingerLink to Sahadev on MadrigalLink to Sahadev on TaillonLink to Sahadev on sweepersLink to EW Bellinger roundtableLink to Woodward on back-picksLink to Sahadev’s spring previewLink to Sahadev’s author archiveLink to 1976 article sourceLink to HoF site on the shortsLink to Paul Lukas on the shortsLink to Chris Creamer on the shortsLink to Costanza uniforms videoLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to MLBTR on PainterLink to CPBL triple-digit uniformLink to CPBL no. 999Link to triple-digit ump uniformsLink to Spaceman uni sourceLink to Lee wearing 337 Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.comvar SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {});Source