Successfully Wild Episode 2209: The Catcher Bug Catcher -

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Derek Jeter‘s (and Aaron Choose’s) championship-or-bust rhetoric, Alex Rodriguez’s date night time, Choose’s home-run robberies, Choose’s offensive prowess in comparison with Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds, how clutchness (or the dearth thereof) may have an effect on the AL MVP race, Juan Soto’s protection, how the trajectory of Seattle’s season could have sealed Scott Servais’s destiny, the Royals’ beneficial sturdiness, Michael Kopech as a Dodger, Dallas Keuchel’s newest vacation spot, the brand new, previous Jacob deGrom, and Jordan Montgomery’s and Blake Snell’s contrasting takes on Scott Boras. Then (1:14:39) they carry again Sports activities Reference software program developer (and first developer of Baseball-Reference.com) Kenny Jackelen to explain the work that went into guaranteeing that Danny Jansen’s distinctive two-teams-in-one-game efficiency diddn’t break B-Ref.

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

Hyperlink to Jeter quote
Hyperlink to 2019 Choose quote
Hyperlink to 2023 Choose quote
Hyperlink to 2023 Choose quote 2
Hyperlink to story on 2009 reunion
Hyperlink to duck tour incidents
Hyperlink to A-Rod date night time 1
Hyperlink to A-Rod date night time 2
Hyperlink to Babe Ruth Award wiki
Hyperlink to FG batting paces
Hyperlink to FG WAR leaderboard
Hyperlink to single-season wRC+ leaders
Hyperlink to single-season batting leaders
Hyperlink to hitting leaders since 5/1
Hyperlink to SIS Choose stat
Hyperlink to Choose theft article
Hyperlink to “locked in” quote
Hyperlink to “locked in” quote 2
Hyperlink to Choose’s splits
Hyperlink to Tango on Choose’s clutchness
Hyperlink to FG Clutch leaderboard
Hyperlink to batting WPA leaders
Hyperlink to pitching WPA leaders
Hyperlink to batting cWPA leaders
Hyperlink to pitching cWPA leaders
Hyperlink to spring Soto play
Hyperlink to EW on Soto’s play
Hyperlink to Bradley/Soto article
Hyperlink to Soto’s defensive historical past
Hyperlink to Ben on Harper’s protection
Hyperlink to Selig Rule article
Hyperlink to Wilson wiki
Hyperlink to Sheehan on the Royals
Hyperlink to BP IL Ledger
Hyperlink to 2024 group batting age
Hyperlink to Jaffe on Kopech
Hyperlink to Sox Machine on Kopech
Hyperlink to Keuchel signing article
Hyperlink to Carmen Sandiego theme track
Hyperlink to deGrom rehab article 1
Hyperlink to deGrom rehab article 2
Hyperlink to deGrom rehab article 3
Hyperlink to Montgomery feedback
Hyperlink to Snell feedback
Hyperlink to MLBTR on Montgomery/Snell
Hyperlink to MLBTR on Montgomery’s agent
Hyperlink to Jaffe on the Boras 4
Hyperlink to @mattomic tweet
Hyperlink to Kenny’s first EW look
Hyperlink to Cora on Jansen
Hyperlink to B-Ref recreation web page
Hyperlink to Jansen recreation log
Hyperlink to Forman tweet
Hyperlink to ballpark meetup types
Hyperlink to meetup organizer kind