Effectively Wild Episode 2182: Finnegan’s Wait

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Edwin Díaz’s sticky-stuff suspension, a new name for the internal brace alternative to Tommy John surgery, Blake Snell’s latest setback, the success and extension of Cristopher Sánchez (and the Phillies’ excellence), Shota Imanaga’s regression and Meg’s preseason prediction about Imanaga vs. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Kyle Finnegan’s first-of-its-kind clockoff, the respective impressiveness of starts by Bailey Ober and Pablo López, a follow-up Steven Kwan-versation, the much-improved Guardians offense, an incredible catch by a Baltimore fan, the latest slow start by Julio Rodríguez, and (1:27:17) Ben’s pedantic report about brand-new baseball movie Ultraman: Rising.

Audio intro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Díaz incident
Link to UCL surgery sheet
Link to internal brace explainer
Link to Snell comments
Link to “slapdick” story
Link to Giants depth chart
Link to P fWAR since 5/11
Link to Dombrowski comments
Link to Dan S. on the extension
Link to MLBTR on the extension
Link to preseason predictions pods
Link to Finnegan play
Link to Finnegans Wake wiki
Link to violations leaderboard
Link to clockoff game log
Link to clockoff gamer
Link to shrimp post
Link to Sam on walk-off errors
Link to Sam on walk-off strikeouts
Link to Langs pitch-count stat
Link to Stathead on Ober games
Link to first Kwanconversation
Link to article on Guardians whiffs
Link to recent Kwan profile
Link to Cleveland wind tunnel
Link to fan’s catch
Link to Julio’s splits
Link to Julio’s swing changes
Link to Neil on Julio’s starts
Link to wOBA-xWOBA
Link to Ultraman wiki
Link to Ultraman: Rising wiki
Link to Ken’s stats screenshot
Link to 400+ HR sheet
Link to .500-est teams
Link to Turner’s helmet play
Link to Sam on helmets
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form

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