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Podcast: Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Episode: Effectively Wild Episode 2164: The Batcast Era
Description:
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the âeffectively wildâ debut of Paul Skenes and the Piratesâ bases-loaded walkathon, an in-development TV series about Ippei Mizuhara, the demotion of Craig Kimbrel and possible trade dangling of Mason Miller, the continued success of Davis Schneider, the impact of replay review on the increase in catcherâs interference calls, and whether teams should go back to rearranging their rotations based on opponent quality, then (39:14) bring on Mike Petriello of MLB.com to explain and discuss the present and future of MLBâs new Statcast-based bat-tracking metrics, plus (1:27:51) a few follow-ups.
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