Effectively Wild Episode 2503: Very Important Prey

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley share listener solutions to the mystery of why the 12-straight-hits club is such an undistinguished group, the Home Run Derby field, Bryce Harper’s video message (13:28) to a sports-betting addict and sportsbooks’ practice of preying on whales, the disparity (35:54) in the recent treatment of two pitchers who had no-hitters in progress, and Zack Wheeler’s gripe against All-Star selecting, then (1:02:42) answer a listener email about how much a game one has to have seen to claim to have “watched” it, and Stat Blast (1:23:20) about partial home run robberies, games with matching starter pitch and strike counts, historical team no-hitter conversion rates, and prolific “first” strikeout and home-run recorders.

Audio intro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Tolbert record post 1
Link to Tolbert record post 2
Link to Williams 11th hit
Link to Pedroia 11th hit
Link to HRD field
Link to Norway rowing pedant
Link to Inquirer article on Harper
Link to Post article on Harper
Link to lawsuit article
Link to Giannis/Kalshi article
Link to gambling damage research 1
Link to gambling damage research 2
Link to addiction story 1
Link to addiction story 2
Link to addiction story 3
Link to addiction story 4
Link to addiction story 5
Link to story on Jones 1
Link to story on Jones 2
Link to Jones game log
Link to questions about Jones
Link to Jones Q&A
Link to Cease story
Link to BP on Cease
Link to top 2026 pitch counts
Link to Blum on pulling pitchers
Link to Scott/PCA clip
Link to Ben on no-hitter strike zones
Link to Wheeler quote clip
Link to Wheeler’s agent article
Link to latest Luzardo start
Link to 2025 Phillies ASG complaints
Link to “May I meet you?” meme
Link to Pascal’s wager wiki
Link to “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Link to Simpson/Adell robbery
Link to Glavine game 1
Link to Glavine game 2
Link to Nola question
Link to Bois on Stieb
Link to Stat Blast data
Link to listener emails database
Link to Cubs fact 1
Link to Cubs fact 2
Link to MLBTR on Ohtani
Link to MLBTR on Wetherholt