Successfully Wild Episode 1989: Baseball Goes Again to the ’80s

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Ben Lindbergh and Noah Woodward of the publication The Advance Scout talk about Noah’s front-office profession, the impression of the MLB guidelines adjustments on tempo/time of sport, the working sport, and hitting and protection to date, how gamers might adapt, the questions Ben and Noah nonetheless have in regards to the guidelines’ long-term results, Rob Manfred’s characterization of analytics as “an arms race to nowhere,” and extra. Then (1:00:26) Ben brings on LJ Rader of the Twitter/Instagram account Art But Make It Sports to clarify how he cleverly juxtaposes sports activities scenes with photos of work and sculptures, whether or not baseball lends itself effectively to his work, and his greatest baseball photos, plus a Previous Blast (1:40:16) from 1989 and some closing ideas (1:46:42).

Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Noah’s Substack
Link to Noah’s BP archive
Link to Noah on changeups
Link to Noah on back-picks
Link to Noah on pickoffs
Link to Noah on pickoff substitutes
Link to article on clock momentum
Hyperlink to Jaffe on late-season momentum
Hyperlink to Dan S. on playoff momentum
Link to Russell on momentum
Link to Mariners-fan countdown
Link to Sam on Corbin
Hyperlink to Baumann on Orioles working
Hyperlink to Ben C. on steals
Link to Volpe SB article
Hyperlink to Jeff on Lester
Link to Jayson Stark on OF shifts
Link to new “sweeper” classification
Link to Ben on the pitch clock
Link to Ben on pitcher limits
Link to Ben on mound moving
Link to Tango on game times
Link to Petriello on BABIP
Link to Passan on stat changes
Link to Manfred on analytics
Hyperlink to Lewie Pollis on EW
Link to Lewie on leaving a dream job
Link to Lewie’s follow-up piece
Link to R.J. on front-office brain drain
Link to MLB Closed Captioning
Link to @UnfortunateMLB
Link to Umpire Scorecards
Link to Would it Dong?
Link to Art But Make it Sports Insta
Link to Art But Make it Sports Twitter
Link to Art But Make it Sports website
Hyperlink to Araujo EW episode
Link to SI on LJ
Link to LJ’s Bednar post
Link to LJ’s proposal post
Link to LJ’s Ventura/Ryan post
Link to LJ’s Siri post
Link to LJ’s Muncy post
Link to LJ’s Murphy post
Link to 1989 Past Blast source
Link to 1989 Hadley paper
Link to 1992 Hadley paper
Link to 1993 Hadley paper
Link to 1991 MLB payrolls
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Ward/Wade wiki
Link to Arcia prediction story
Link to Turner mic’d up
Link to Ben on mic’d up players
Link to McKenna/Duvall video
Link to Stathead on Duvall
Link to Pagliaroni game
Link to errors preceding walkoffs
Link to EW on Shamsky
Link to EW on Shamsky again
Link to Bowie Baysox meetup
Link to Caught Steelin’ band